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Kindle Book sold on Amazon : Pedophile's Guide to Love & Pleasure
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Anonymous
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Amazon didn't publish the book. They are selling the book. There is a difference. They sell books on how to dog fight and how to do many other illegal activities.
So does borders and barnes and nobles. There are books sold in many bookstores that show you how to make explosives and how to make various drugs. Are you saying that those are better to sell than this book? Those are how to books on harming other people. So what if amazon is allowing this book to remain on their site. It is a persons choice to buy or not to buy... They won't stop selling it just because a few hundred people whine about it. They've had just as many whine about the dog fighting books and they are still there |
Anonymous
This is the 15:45 poster and I have to say I agree with this. I don't think fleeting outrage by a few should determine what books get pulled. If you don't support the subject matter, then don't buy the book. I, personally, don't want Amazon deciding what subject matter is too offensive to sell. Amazon is not my moral compass. They shouldn't be selling anything that is illegal and I'm certain they have a team of attorneys to make that call. Before anyone starts in on me, I do understand the impact that pedophiles have on the victims. I was attacked by a violent pedophile when I was child. Now, more than 20 years later, I still suffer from PTSD because of the incident. |
Anonymous
| PP here. I just realized that there were two of us posting at 15:45. I was the second one. |
Anonymous
Child pornography is illegal and it should be illegal to sell books encouraging it. I don't think any books encouraging illegal behavior that harms others should be condoned. Why does it have to be all or nothing? If someone uses the advice in this book to harm YOUR child will you still fight for the author's right to sell it on Amazon? |
Anonymous
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Of course there is a difference between publishing and selling this book. Amazon should refuse to sell it. Period. Pedophilia is the lowest of low, even in prisons they are the lowest of low.
If Politics and Prose sold this book, would folks support that? |
Anonymous
Or what if your local library made it available? |
Anonymous
| 9:06 Same thing. No way! Amazon took it down. See the other thread. |
Anonymous
| I think now I will boycott Amazon... |
Anonymous
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I received an offer this morning from Amazon to join Amazon Mom and free Prime shipping and 30% off diapers. The catch is they want the names and ages of my children. Scary stuff!
I promptly removed my information and emailed them to express my outrage. The fact that this book cracked the top 100 is terrifying. I don't care if it was taken down, there needs to be an investigation. |
Anonymous
| I don't think pulling the book will have any practical effects on pedophilia whatsoever. And yet . . . I am still really glad that they pulled the book. |
Anonymous
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=2nd%20Phillip%20R.%20Greaves
Apparently he has other books he has written that are selfpublished and for sale on Amazon. |
Anonymous
| 10:06 Probably true, it's the symbolism and the precedent of it ... also, some teens have Kindles and could download such books out of prurient curiosity. Creepy all around. |
Anonymous
| Yes, why censor our own buying habits when we have Amazon to make that decision for us? |
Anonymous
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Also, I'm certain all this outrage has given this book all the publicity the author could never afford.
Way to go, angry mob! |
Anonymous
ITA!! |