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Originally Posted by carld
Which makes it discrimination, which is never a non-issue.
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Nope, not discrimination, a marketing decision. There is a difference in this instance. They are imposing content limits on the type of explicit yaoi they sell, not the fact of selling it.
I say it is a "non-issue" because this just seems to be another of those "big, bad Amazon" threads. It's becoming obvious that whoever was supposed to be minding the store over there regarding their content agreements with authors and publishers was slacking off on the job, and whoever has the job now is enforcing the letter of the agreements. So we are seeing things removed from sale that apparently had been overlooked, deliberately or not.
Every time Amazon enforces their content agreements, another thread pops up here causing an outcry that Amazon is "discriminating" against one thing or another, or is "stealing" ebooks from people's Kindles or what-have-you. They have guidelines and content rules that are set up between them and the authors/publishers; we are not privy to each agreement. If someone tries to slide something under that radar in order to take advantage of the global sales reach that Amazon gives them, and they get found out, well then that's just the price of doing business with Amazon. There's not need to turn it into a
cause célèbre, which is what seems to be happening every time now.