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Originally Posted by Rbneader
It's not the free market.
Letting the market decide = seeing how many people use the app and letting it rise or fall by purchasing decisions. The current controversy is a group of people exerting social and political pressure to shame people who disagree with them and limit choice.
As for authorial rights, authors do not have the right to control readers' behavior so long as no distribution is taking place.
Books were sold unedited, and the app then applied filters the reader chose. This is absolutely acceptable for personal property. Distributing edits would break copyright law, but editing things for personal use does not.
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The authors do have the right to say they do not want their books sold via the app. Because enough authors said no, all the books were pulled. That is a free market to not sell where you don't want to be sold.