Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System

Miracle Jones writes "Amazon has instituted an overnight policy that removes books that may be deemed offensive from their search system, despite the sales rank of the book and also irrespective of any complaints. Bloggers such as Ed Champion are calling for a 'link and book boycott,' asking people to remove links to Amazon from their web pages and stop buying books from them until the policy is reversed. Will this be bad business for Amazon, or will their new policies keep them out of trouble as they continue to grow and replace bookstores?"

Comments

Re:It's Amazon's business

[tftp]

It's not like anyone is suggesting that they be forced to advertise or sell books they don't want to.

Here is a quote from the summary:

Bloggers such as Ed Champion are calling for a 'link and book boycott,' asking people to remove links to Amazon from their web pages and stop buying books from them until the policy is reversed.

What does this resemble more - "letting them know" or "forcing them to advertise/sell" ?

Private company

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Amazon is not government run. They answer only to their shareholders, primarily through the board of directors.

This means that they have complete and total control over not only what they choose to sell, but how they choose to present it (or not present it). Your only recourse is to not support them (as the author recommends).