On @Amazon taking down 20+ books on 20+ trials, because they belatedly don’t like my 2021 book on US v Ghislaine Maxwell (& Epstein & UN), here’s a short video – sorry to be Johnny One-Note, but KDP & @Audible_com have now disappeared years of reporting – story:
Book Ban by Amazon Extends from Ghislaine Maxwell to SFB and Eric Adams, UN, BNP & Sudan – and Audible
by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/MatthewRussellLee Substack https://substack.com/@matthewrussellleeicp?
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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