Posted on 01/31/2019 9:42:03 AM PST by grey_whiskers
See the link. All references to the Kindle Books have been removed; the notice from Amazon to the publisher is interesting too. Someone at Amazon *appears* to,have wiped the publisher clean off their databases.
But is The Empire collapsing or is it corroding?
A publishing house that focuses on conservative science fiction authors had one guy publish a parody of a John Scalzi book, Corroding whatever.
That book was taken down. Someone brought up that Amazon allows rip-offs of Transformers as “Transmorphers” and others, so you can’t ban the Scalzi parody. Book goes back up. Another SJW campaign flags it as intellectual property rip-offs or fraud, so it comes down again.
An Amazon employee decides you’ve got too many violations against your account as a publisher. But we aren’t just going to take down that Scalzi parody for good - we’re taking down hundreds of books by dozens of authors. ALL Amazon kindle versions of all Castalia House are taken down. And, for the icing, we’re not going to pay you January royalties for the hundreds of thousands of KDP sales.
Enough fans flooded Amazon that Castalia House’s books were restored via Amazon Kindle.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
It is part of a broader trend at Amazon to throttle conservative content, both by the company and liberal bullies.
They have stocked a number of WorldNetDaily Press and Michael Savage books, but they only have a few hundred or thousand on hand. They sell those, and then they say it is sold out. The publisher wants to send them more books, but they intentionally don’t restock for a while. And they promote the Kindle version of which they get a bigger cut.
Another issue is the reviews. They remove one star reviews en mass for Clintons’ books and other liberal authors, but they do nothing when liberal mobs give a bunch of fake one star reviews to conservative authors. They know that ratings affect sales, and they don’t care to remove this weight on conservative sales.
Next up - purging reviewers. One of the biggest conservative Christian reviewers had his account pulled for reviewing one of Joseph Farah’s books, Amazon citing vague excuses. They’ve been purging a number of conservative book reviewers, taking down their reviews and preventing them reviewing new works. I had to fight that in my case, and unlike some others, won. The fact that I reviewed nearly everything I buy turned out to be in my favor.
I can understand why Amazon wanted to take down all Castalia House books - while most works are science fiction or fantasy, it includes Moira Greyland Peat’s book “The Last Closet”, a book discussing pedophilia in the scifi community and tying homosexuality and pedophilia together as one spectrum.
Taking down Castalia Books meant taking down her book, as well. But as the daughter of two homosexuals, her father jailed for child rape, they couldn’t say her book was fake or made up.
I know there is a campaign against Moira Greyland Peat in general, because the same liberal mobs that tried to get her books banned also had her harp music flagged as explicit and did a lot of fake negative reviews on her fiction and musical tracks, as well. Using the Scalzi book parody as a way to delist and hurt her and a bunch of authors vaguely tied to her would make sense.
Summary
This is just a bigger salvo in the culture war against conservative content creators in general.
A publishing house that focuses on conservative science fiction authors had one guy publish a parody of a John Scalzi book, Corroding whatever.
That book was taken down. Someone brought up that Amazon allows rip-offs of Transformers as “Transmorphers” and others, so you can’t ban the Scalzi parody. Book goes back up. Another SJW campaign flags it as intellectual property rip-offs or fraud, so it comes down again.
An Amazon employee decides you’ve got too many violations against your account as a publisher. But we aren’t just going to take down that Scalzi parody for good - we’re taking down hundreds of books by dozens of authors. ALL Amazon kindle versions of all Castalia House are taken down. And, for the icing, we’re not going to pay you January royalties for the hundreds of thousands of KDP sales.
Enough fans flooded Amazon that Castalia House’s books were restored via Amazon Kindle.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
It is part of a broader trend at Amazon to throttle conservative content, both by the company and liberal bullies.
They have stocked a number of WorldNetDaily Press and Michael Savage books, but they only have a few hundred or thousand on hand. They sell those, and then they say it is sold out. The publisher wants to send them more books, but they intentionally don’t restock for a while. And they promote the Kindle version of which they get a bigger cut.
Another issue is the reviews. They remove one star reviews en mass for Clintons’ books and other liberal authors, but they do nothing when liberal mobs give a bunch of fake one star reviews to conservative authors. They know that ratings affect sales, and they don’t care to remove this weight on conservative sales.
Next up - purging reviewers. One of the biggest conservative Christian reviewers had his account pulled for reviewing one of Joseph Farah’s books, Amazon citing vague excuses. They’ve been purging a number of conservative book reviewers, taking down their reviews and preventing them reviewing new works. I had to fight that in my case, and unlike some others, won. The fact that I reviewed nearly everything I buy turned out to be in my favor.
I can understand why Amazon wanted to take down all Castalia House books - while most works are science fiction or fantasy, it includes Moira Greyland Peat’s book “The Last Closet”, a book discussing pedophilia in the scifi community and tying homosexuality and pedophilia together as one spectrum.
Taking down Castalia Books meant taking down her book, as well. But as the daughter of two homosexuals, her father jailed for child rape, they couldn’t say her book was fake or made up.
I know there is a campaign against Moira Greyland Peat in general, because the same liberal mobs that tried to get her books banned also had her harp music flagged as explicit and did a lot of fake negative reviews on her fiction and musical tracks, as well. Using the Scalzi book parody as a way to delist and hurt her and a bunch of authors vaguely tied to her would make sense.
Summary
This is just a bigger salvo in the culture war against conservative content creators in general.
A publishing house that focuses on conservative science fiction authors had one guy publish a parody of a John Scalzi book, Corroding whatever.
That book was taken down. Someone brought up that Amazon allows rip-offs of Transformers as “Transmorphers” and others, so you can’t ban the Scalzi parody. Book goes back up. Another SJW campaign flags it as intellectual property rip-offs or fraud, so it comes down again.
An Amazon employee decides you’ve got too many violations against your account as a publisher. But we aren’t just going to take down that Scalzi parody for good - we’re taking down hundreds of books by dozens of authors. ALL Amazon kindle versions of all Castalia House are taken down. And, for the icing, we’re not going to pay you January royalties for the hundreds of thousands of KDP sales.
Enough fans flooded Amazon that Castalia House’s books were restored via Amazon Kindle.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
It is part of a broader trend at Amazon to throttle conservative content, both by the company and liberal bullies.
They have stocked a number of WorldNetDaily Press and Michael Savage books, but they only have a few hundred or thousand on hand. They sell those, and then they say it is sold out. The publisher wants to send them more books, but they intentionally don’t restock for a while. And they promote the Kindle version of which they get a bigger cut.
Another issue is the reviews. They remove one star reviews en mass for Clintons’ books and other liberal authors, but they do nothing when liberal mobs give a bunch of fake one star reviews to conservative authors. They know that ratings affect sales, and they don’t care to remove this weight on conservative sales.
Next up - purging reviewers. One of the biggest conservative Christian reviewers had his account pulled for reviewing one of Joseph Farah’s books, Amazon citing vague excuses. They’ve been purging a number of conservative book reviewers, taking down their reviews and preventing them reviewing new works. I had to fight that in my case, and unlike some others, won. The fact that I reviewed nearly everything I buy turned out to be in my favor.
I can understand why Amazon wanted to take down all Castalia House books - while most works are science fiction or fantasy, it includes Moira Greyland Peat’s book “The Last Closet”, a book discussing pedophilia in the scifi community and tying homosexuality and pedophilia together as one spectrum.
Taking down Castalia Books meant taking down her book, as well. But as the daughter of two homosexuals, her father jailed for child rape, they couldn’t say her book was fake or made up.
I know there is a campaign against Moira Greyland Peat in general, because the same liberal mobs that tried to get her books banned also had her harp music flagged as explicit and did a lot of fake negative reviews on her fiction and musical tracks, as well. Using the Scalzi book parody as a way to delist and hurt her and a bunch of authors vaguely tied to her would make sense.
Summary
This is just a bigger salvo in the culture war against conservative content creators in general.
TBW2,
Thank you very much for the explanation. It is difficult recognizing this as the America we grew up in. Add to that, the dreams of greatness coming from advanced technology dashed on the rocks of social “justice” media, “woke” companies, privacy issues rivaling ANY dystopian predictions (1984, Brave New World, The Circle, Eagle Eye, Colossus: The Forbin Project, etc.), and a Rocky Horror “jump to the left” of the Overton Window, things do not look promising.
Again, thanks for the information, will be looking for some of the mentioned titles (to supplement the Heinlein, L N Smith, D Weber, and crew).
KYPD
Yeah. Love the part where it talks about the covers being a Highlights spot the differences contest.
Just as the first movie hit theaters years ago, a young friend of ours came back from New York with a “Spida Man” DVD (Spiderman filmed by a movie-goer). Got it from a street vendor.
I never understand why people buy those things. Movie ticket prices aren’t as cheap as they used to be but they aren’t like concert ticket expensive either. those bootlegs give you awful video and worse sound, it’s not worth the few bucks you save by not buying a ticket.
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