Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System

Miracle Jones writes “Amazon has instituted an overnight policy that removes books that may be deemed offensive from their search system, despite the sales rank of the book and also irrespective of any complaints. Bloggers such as Ed Champion are calling for a ‘link and book boycott,’ asking people to remove links to Amazon from their web pages and stop buying books from them until the policy is reversed. Will this be bad business for Amazon, or will there new policies keep them out of trouble as they continue to grow and replace bookstores?”

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