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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In general, Amazon is a business and is free to choose not to carry a book if they feel that it would be bad for business. Of course the flip side of pulling a book because some object to it is that you normally get blow back when you that. That's one reason that Amazon carries some anti-Amazon books.
Just to give my 2 cents worth on the overall topic of the thread, people are certainly free to condemn anything they want to, and I'm free to ignore them, which is what I normally do.
When looking at a given book, I know up front that certain authors or subjects will attract a group of "reviewers" who give stars based on the author or subject, not the book in hand. I tend to look at the spread of the ratings, and then read the more helpful reviews. You know the ones that don't start "Author X is evil and I wish he would die a horrible death" or "Author X is the most wonderful person in the world".
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Please reread my post. Is Anti-Amazon #1 against the law and two is it for titillating purposes? If the answer is no, then the subject is ok.
In theory, the only genre that should be affected is erotica. If the authors tried to put their smut (for lack of a better term) where it belonged, Amazon would kick it out before it ever got put out for sale. Yes, they do check that genre before letting a book go on sale. To make sure it doesn't violate the terms of service which are for that part in plain and very simple English.
In reality, the smut peddlers know this and so they purposely miscategorize to get their "books" on Amazon. This in turn gets people outraged for more than one reason.
Just wanted to add there are other booksellers that have no problems with selling those types of books.