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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Prejudice of any sort just doesn't happen when it comes to getting money. Don't you think Amazon is biting at the lease to get a foot into the door of all of those RICH RICH RICH middle easterners? Was Dubai on the sell or no-sell list? (I skipped a lot because reading is painful to my eyes. Mostly read first lines of paragraphs.)
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You are probably right, DixieGal. However--as perhaps you mean to acknowledge by responding respectfully, unlike many others including some moderators have--the list of countries is such that it's understandable that other possible explanations can occur to some people.
I'm sure we will not learn with any certainty the "why" of it, but I rather expect that Amazon would indeed start offering books in Muslim countries also in the future. Even if at first only in the same sort of isolated basis that they offer books in China (I believe English/foreign books are not included on their Chinese website).
I'm still left puzzled though why some people take personal offense to a corporation they have nothing to do with being weakly accused of wrongdoing... a corporation that is by no means known as a champion of morality and customer rights, at that. Doesn't seem healthy.
- Ahi