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To: Gerfang
Amazon knows they will lose a lot more business if they decide NOT to carry such material.

An important factor when business is all that Namblazon cares about.

41 posted on 10/02/2002 9:38:15 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
There's absolutely no right to have someone sell your book.

I agree, and I thought I made that clear in my post.

And if you think there are more people who wish to read The Turner Diaries than are puking over Namblazon's decision here - I think you may be wrong!

Probably not, but a great many people and organizations will not patronize companies that refuse to carry books for political reasons. I’m one. The American Library Association, sponsor of Banned Books Week, is another.

I can reach easily about 1,000 people in churches here - and who will refuse to go to Namblazon for books. A lot of others will be doing the same. Jeff NAMBLA Bezos is contributing to the rape of children. Society should puke.

Knock yourself out. On the off chance you will succeed, so what? A thousand other on-line retailers will still carry the material and you wont keep it from a single person who wants it.

An important factor when business is all that Namblazon cares about.

Maybe so, and there’s nothing illegal about that. But there are also a lot of booksellers who believe in the free marketplace of ideas. An advocate may present the case for any idea, no matter how deplorable most think it. That is the core of your First Amendment rights. Let the author make his case. If the argument has merit, it may be embraced, if not it will be abandoned. Either way, it is the publics’ decision.

42 posted on 10/02/2002 12:18:54 PM PDT by Gerfang
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