Before You Buy Anything Else From Amazon, Read This...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I do not want the largest book retailer on earth telling me what I can and cannot read.

Exactly. I would have been far more likely to boycott Amazon if they refused to sell the book.

They have done. It is no longer on sale.

[devogue]

I do not want the largest book retailer on earth telling me what I can and cannot read.

Exactly. I would have been far more likely to boycott Amazon if they refused to sell the book.

They have done. It is no longer on sale.

Bastards!

[Pappa]

I do not want the largest book retailer on earth telling me what I can and cannot read.

Exactly. I would have been far more likely to boycott Amazon if they refused to sell the book.

They have done. It is no longer on sale.

Bastards!

Amazon haven't censored it, they've removed to to avoid harming their business if a real boycott spreads. It's just a pragmatic decision.

[devogue]

I do not want the largest book retailer on earth telling me what I can and cannot read.

Exactly. I would have been far more likely to boycott Amazon if they refused to sell the book.

They have done. It is no longer on sale.

Bastards!

Amazon haven't censored it, they've removed to to avoid harming their business if a real boycott spreads. It's just a pragmatic decision.

Pragmatic bastards!

[maiforpeace]

The bottom line trumps principles once again.

So, will those of you who protested vehemently that it shouldn't be removed be boycotting Amazon now?

[Pappa]

The bottom line trumps principles once again.

So, will those of you who protested vehemently that it shouldn't be removed be boycotting Amazon now?

Are you mad!?!?! Where else will I buy everything from?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The bottom line trumps principles once again.

So, will those of you who protested vehemently that it shouldn't be removed be boycotting Amazon now?

Are you mad!?!?! Where else will I buy everything from?

I buy from Amazon cos it's convenient, cheap and large enough to have some really obscure items in stock. I'm not going to boycott it just for something as daft as wether they stock a single book that I'm not at all interested in. If it turned out they were donating to the catholic church, or were owned by Rupert Murdoch, I might think again.

[maiforpeace]

My husband buys tons of books through Amazon. I buy a lot of stuff online but I don't buy much from Amazon for no particular reason. I do use it a lot as a shopping information resource though.

[rachelbean]

I would be so lost without Amazon

[lordpasternack]

I'm actually half-interested in what the book actually SAYS now. There are people out there who hold that sexual relations between adults and minors (or humans and non-humans) needn't be abusive per se - and from a purely rational, hypothetical standpoint - they have a valid kinda point, there. It will likely remain forever an ethical can of worms - and I wouldn't demonise anyone who does, earnestly, open it…

On the other hand, if this book simply contains pointers on how to manipulate vulnerable children, and then bully them and abuse them horribly, physically and psychologically, all to the ends of getting your rocks off - please excuse me while I go have a vomitting fit before considering my next move…

[Rob]

It just goes to show you that the average person only cares about free speech and is angered by censorship when it doesn't inconvenience them. If it does however, its not that big of a deal, now is it?

[lordpasternack]

Is not selling something censorship?

Fuzzy lines in the sand, here…

[Warren Dew]

So, will those of you who protested vehemently that it shouldn't be removed be boycotting Amazon now?

If I verify the removal, I'll be buying my books at Barnes & Noble.

[GreyICE]

I do not want the largest book retailer on earth telling me what I can and cannot read.

Exactly. I would have been far more likely to boycott Amazon if they refused to sell the book.

They have done. It is no longer on sale.

I am going to write an angry note.

[Rob]

Is not selling something censorship?

Fuzzy lines in the sand, here…

He is not able to sell his work on the biggest media outlet for his medium. If a book was taken down because it was religious or anti-religious in nature I promise you this would change the entire way people look at this event. Call it a business choice if you want to, I view it as censorship.