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Carrie -

I havent heard about those particular titles, but Amazon does remove titles with certain content from its rankings (see http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-censors-its-rankings-search-results-to-protect-us-against-glbt-books/ and more recent coverage here: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related-erotica-titles-from-store-kindle-archive/). The most recent hullaballoo is that they also recently pulled a book on pedophilia due to internet outcry (see here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/amazon-pedophile/).

Just goes to show no matter how big they are or how much info they provide us, corporations are still acting based on profit margins and public opinion. Once amazon starts removing materials deemed "offensive," where do they stop?

Colleen S. Harris
Head of Access Services
university of Tennessee at Chattanooga

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Carrie Gardner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello,

I just received this from a school librarian in PA.  I HAVE not verified anything.  Does anyone know anything about this? 

Carrie Gardner
at large

Amazon has begun banning erotica books.

The first line of fire seems to be incest titles. My books, Back to the
Garden, Naughty Bits and Under Mr. Nolan's Bed have been removed from
the Kindle store. (The print version of Back to the Garden, published
through CreateSpace, an Amazon company, has also been removed).

Jess Scott and Esmerelda Green have also had books with an incest theme
recently banned from the site. All of them, incidentally, high in the
rankings and in visibility.

Amazon has also removed these books from people's Kindle archives,
without warning or explanation. If you have purchased any of these
titles through Amazon Kindle, please go demand a refund. You are
entitled to one.

Also, if you can spread the word, that would be helpful. I am obviously
fighting this, but the more public outcry the better.

You can post on Amazon's board about it here (as long as they don't
delete the thread):

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ttp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding\
=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2QG9BWA19KO4O&displayType=tagsDe\
tail


You can also tweet it here: #amazoncensors

Utilize whatever you can - Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Your help is much appreciated!

Jeff's Bezos direct address (head of Amazon)

ff Bezos
Amazon.com, Inc.
1200 12th Ave, Suite 1200
Seattle, WA 98122

Executive Customer Relations:
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and all the members on the board of directors:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govmanage

-Selena Kitt

Posted by Carrie Gardner



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