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The right outcome here is for the author to get sued, not a unilateral ban of books where Amazon is judge, jury, and executioner. Before you know it, Amazon wil
by m0zg 8y ago
The right outcome here is for the author to get sued, not a unilateral ban of books where Amazon is judge, jury, and executioner. Before you know it, Amazon will be banning books that Jeff Bezos doesn't like, and while it is within its rights to do so (unfortunately), that would not be a good outcome at all, for anybody.
- dragonwriter 8y agoA retailer deciding not to buy and sell particular books is not a ban any more than a consumer choosing not to buy the book is. (If Amazon is so intractably dominant in book sales that it needs utility-like regulation, that's a different issue, but when it isn't subject to such regulation it is irrational to expect it to act like a utility.)
- anigbrowl 8y agoNo it isn't. Litigation in slow and expensive, and the targets of such litigation would just turn around and whine they're being oppressed by the courts were they to lose.