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Amazon bookselling censorship

amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions

15th April 2009 Jon Reed #amazonfail, Amazon, censorship, Dubai Festival, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Margaret Atwood, National Coalition Against Censorship, Stephen Fry, Twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition

Amazon bookselling censorship

amazonfail = PRfail

14th April 2009 Jon Reed #amazonfail, Amazon, book burning, censorship, Channel 4 News, fail, gay, Gore Vidal, lesbian, PR, Twitter

Reading Time: 4 minutes My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal: “Why don’t they just burn the books?

Amazon bookselling censorship

An open letter to Jeff Bezos

12th April 2009 Jon Reed #amazonfail, Amazon, amazon rank, banned books, Brokeback Mountain, censorship, D.H. Lawrence, discrimination, homophobia, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Bezos, Lady Chatterley's Lover, LGBT, Stephen Fry

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Jeff, I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the