[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.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Think they’ve banned 1984 yet?

[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.

[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.

[Cboldt]

Watch out when they ban Farenheit 451

[Ancesthntr]

If it weren’t for double standards, Leftists would have no standards at all: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/16/amazon-boots-parler-for-users-violent-language-but-hosts-merchant-selling-kill-all-republicans-shirt/

[Lowell1775]

Ping

[OKSooner]

Well, as long as we're on the subject I'd be interested in an English copy of The Camp of the Saints.

Anybody know where one could get one, or a PDF texty kinda thing?

[spokeshave]

I stopped selling books on Amazon a while back...was dinged for missing bar codes...I think I printed the labels in landscape mode instead of portrait...and it took weeks to get an inventory list....and they want 55% discount.

[MercyFlush]

Well, now I need to quit Amazon. Bye.

[lowbridge]

“I’m an old school liberal”

Its your old school liberalism that has led to this.

[SuperLuminal]

Communist Purge Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!