Amazon’s book banning leading to multiple Restricted Policy Violations (Amazon punishing sellers)

Amazon.com ^ | 1/16/2021

[UnwashedPeasant]

Amazon is penalizing sellers of wrongthink books. Even if they sold a banned book years ago, sellers are now being punished.

*I am not the seller who wrote the post on the Amazon site.*

[BipolarBob]

I see book burnings in our future. What was Fahrenheit 451 about anyway??

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[PGalt]

Amazon is penalizing sellers of wrongthink books. Even if they sold a banned book years ago, sellers are now being punished.

FYI

Restaurant reviewers are punishing wrong think restaurants.

Trip advisor is punishing wrong think reviewers.

[PGalt]

Got an iPhone message to schedule my appointment to get my 1st Covid shot at the University of Michigan. I can do it any time in the next 18 months.

[PGalt]

Yes, LOCKDOWN / CANCEL NON-ESSENTIALS has gotten to that depth.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Think they’ve banned 1984 yet?

[mewzilla]

If you want one of the vaccines, could you get it faster through the private sector?

Or has the public sector got control of all WuFlu vaccine in MI?

[PGalt]

Neo-slavery...FRee states vs. SLAVE STATES. Unfortunately I’m in an economic terrorist lockdown state at the moment.

[PGalt]

Don’t want one...don’t need one. Thanks.

[EasySt]

I’ve heard it called “Pixelnacht”

(as opposed to “Krystallnacht”.)

~Easy

[gunnut]

On top of this, publishers of a lot of titles are cutting deals to restrict secondary market sales of their books as used, raising your prices and limiting what I can sell. Marvel for example I don’t bother to try and list any longer, third party sellers are simply blocked through corporate dealings from listing without presenting a recent wholesale invoice from the publisher. This is a means of subverting secondary sales allowances in the Copyright Act.

They can probably get away with most of what they want in censorship but I don’t understand how this is not price fixing and anti-competitive practice.

[silverleaf]

Just went and ordered “ Art of the Deal” before it disappears

[PGalt]

https://thedonald.win/p/11S0l6kYJ3/just-your-daily-reminder-you-are/c/

[Kipp]

I sell books on amazon and what is said in the opening post is true. It’s been happening for several years. When amazon decides to ban a book, rather than notifying the seller and taking the listing down, they give the seller a defect. And they even give you a defect for a book you sold years ago and still have the title in your inactive inventory with a quantity of zero. It’s happened to me two or three times. Now I delete inventory listings with zero quantity, but you never know when a book that was safe to list is banned until you get the warning from amazon that your account is in danger.

[bakeneko]

Coming soon; I went there last night and it was NUMBER THREE in all paperbacks.

[pierrem15]

third party sellers are simply blocked through corporate dealings from listing without presenting a recent wholesale invoice from the publisher. This is a means of subverting secondary sales allowances in the Copyright Act.

Sounds like a prima facie conspiracy to act in restraint of trade.

I'm sure the Biteme administration will get right on it. /s

[pierrem15]

We're going to have to create an alternate infrastructure. But even that will be difficult as banks and merchant services start to cut us off.

I hope states will start doing something about this, like banning sales by businesses like Amazon that restrict publication or just adding a surtax, like 10% to fund an infrastructure for alternate sellers.

Otherwise we'll be back to samizdat printed on mimeograph machines.

[pierrem15]

I note “The Anarchist Cookbook” is still for sale.

[algore]

there is a reason Amazon named their book reader the “KINDLE”