Amazon has released more information. Apparently it was user error, 57 310 books were de-listed, and they are working to restore their ranks.
This sounds to me to be fairly accurate; were it a deliberate policy change with an eye to being "family-friendly", it wouldn't make sense to do it covertly. After all, they would want to attract new customers to replace the ones alienated.
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Amazon has released more information. Apparently it was user error, 57 310 books were de-listed, and they are working to restore their ranks. This sounds to me to be fairly accurate; were it a deliberate policy change with an eye to being "family-friendly", it wouldn't make sense to do it covertly. After all, they would want to attract new customers to replace the ones alienated.