| Book Ban by Amazon Extends
from Ghislaine Maxwell to Audible
on Eric Adams UN Sudan
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 26 – There is a lot
of talk these days about
censorship and book banning,
and also about antitrust and
corporate concentration. Here
is one interlocking example,
from Amazon's Kindle Direct
Publishing on the evening of
October 24 to Inner City
Press:
"We have
terminated your KDP account
because you submitted
offensive content, which
violates our content
Guidelines, in the book(s)
listed below.
Maximum Maxwell:
The Narrow Prosecution: From
UN Collusion to Five Guilty
Verdicts, Impunity on Trial-
external_id:46769426
American
Ugly: Kevin Spacey Beats the
Rapp: But Dark Secrets Made
Public in SDNY Live-
external_id:52331181
As part of the
account termination process:
• You can no
longer access your KDP
Account, Bookshelf, or
Reports.
• We have removed
your published books from the
Amazon Store.
• You are not
eligible to receive any
outstanding royalties.
• You are not
allowed to open a new KDP
account.
If you have any
questions or believe your
account was terminated in
error, please reply to this
email."
All of
these books report what was
said in court. Inner City
Press did immediately respond
- and was told to wait until
next week. But KDP did not
wait before taking down and
disappearing books about the
United Nations (Belt and
Roadkill), the Sudan genocide
and BNP Paribas, Sam
Bankman-Fried, Eric Adams,
Rudy Giuliani, Blake Livery,
Tekashi #6ix9ine and Kay Flock
and more.
Amazon /
KDP's decision, without any
any, resulted in the books,
even used, disappearing from
Barnes & Noble and
elsewhere.
Then on October
26, Audible which is said to
operate separately from Amazon
which was allowed to buy it
wrote to Inner City Press:
"It has come to
our attention that the KDP
account associated with your
Amazon account has been
terminated. Audible requires
that the Amazon account ACX
Creators use to log in to ACX
is in good standing. We will
provide you ten (10) days to
contact KDP Customer Support
and resolve the
termination. If your KDP
account is not restored to
good standing within the next
ten (10) days, Audible will
need to terminate your ACX
account and titles. If you
successfully restore your KDP
account to good standing,
please reach out to Audible."
So the default is, cascading
censorship.
Inner City
Press is going elsewhere with
its book about US v.
Peraire-Bueno, Crypto Bros.
But isn't this
censorship? Isn't this, quite
literally, book banning?
To be continued.
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