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There was one other instance where a person had all their Amazon books removed from their devices but that was due to a disagreement between the user and Amazon which resulted in their account being suspended/deleted if I am remembering correctly.
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Amazon DOES block Library access if for example you are deemed to have made too many physical returns or in some other way annoyed Amazon so the entire account, including KDP upload and Kindle downloads is locked out. There is no appeal procedure. Always downloand and backup digital purchases. If using KDP, be careful about returns or other issues, consider a separate name, email, address, payment card etc for purchases. KDP, Kindle purchases and other Amazon purchases shouldn't be all treated as one account by Amazon, but they are! You can't easily setup separate accounts. KDP needs real address, real bank account (I forget, maybe Paypal?) and local version of Tax/Social services number because the USA Government requires proof that you are not in the USA and not a US citizen if it's a USA company. |
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This is not entirely true. While there may be no "Appeal Decision" button that one can click, squeaky--and persistent--wheels have certainly gotten "our decision is final" decisions overturned in the past. In fact, the user in question who was cutoff from their library eventually regained access to it.
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How do people feel about the rewrite Dahl did in 1973, when the Oompa Loompas where changed from a tribe of Black pygmies from Africa into light skinned people, after threats of boycott from NAACP?
I think that's a good change. The parallel to historic chattel slavery in the original is not great, to put it mildly. I find it troubling that the Norwegian translations have kept the original version, where Wonka literally says that he has imported them from Africa! (The newest version I found online is from 2000, so it's possible it has been updated since then. That version has illustrations showing them as white, but text describing them as black, so that's probably a bit confusing for readers.) |
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It’s great when companies can actually admit their mistakes - it happens so rarely.
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It's not specifically Amazon. Online sellers seem to think local law doesn't apply. Digital River (an office in Ireland) even refused to accept that they were the retailer. Last edited by Quoth; 02-24-2023 at 04:41 PM. |
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I do see some reason to respect the original author and, assuming they worked well together, the original editor. Dahl had enough of an imagination that if he had wanted rights-holders to modernize his books over time, he could have put that in his will. But he was so anti-television that I'm sure he would be against Netflix making changes. Re today's Netflix/PRH capitulation, it will be interesting to see which version most libraries and book stores acquire in whatever markets there are both available. Look for another thread on this when those stats come out! Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 02-24-2023 at 09:17 PM. |
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Seems the publishers have done a partial backflip on this issue...
Penguin to publish 'classic' Roald Dahl books alongside new editions after 'censorship' backlash Quote:
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Mmmm. I wonder how well Thomas Bowlder's versions of Shakespeare are selling today?
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So we know what Roald Dahl would have thought of Random-Penguin-Puffin:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...nged-his-words |
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