to find this 'publication' utterly repellent?

[Glitterknickaz]

Amazon is 'offering' this for sale.

In essence it is an attempt to normalise paedophilia.

I find it utterly repellent, but Amazon have defended stocking it on the basis that not to do so would amount to censorship and to "support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions".

I'm seriously considering closing my Amazon account tbh.

There's a thread in Feminism/Womens Rights about this.

I've just closed my Amazon account.

64 "customer reviews" - did they all read it?

Bloody hell !

Well - there's amazon off my list of places to buy books for DS1 for Christmas.

Disgusting but not surprising. They have form, used to stock a rape simulation game before people complained.

As liberal and left wing as i am that is just not right

the "customer reviews" are good though. They are all calling for it to be pulled.

If you search for it on the .com site there are 800 odd reviews also asking for it to go

So have they all bought it? Or can you "review" a book you've never read, on Amazon?

likely none of the reviews are real.

certainly the positive reviews are troll-fodder.

Amazon is defending it:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40112145/?gt1=43001

They took a HUGE pr hit when a tech glitch last year managed to take all the GLBT titles out of the bestseller and search lists, so it's possible that they have just swung too far to the other side and decided that they won't moderate content period.

can i ask? is this a piss take book? or is it what it says on the tin?

shit, its real

Yes, you can 'review' a book on Amazon if you haven't bought it.

Thank you, MarenmjMakesBigPies. :)

yep custard - it's real and

Amazon also stock Mein Kampf, and you oculd undoubtedly find several other titles that Something Must Be Done About (according to your own prejudices) with a quick rummage in their search engine. I don't think it's their job to censor books, but then I don't think it's anyone's job.

Sparkling, I agree.

SGB - but we're not talking about prejudices - we're talking about a crime - a quote from the author

"This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] rules for these adults to follow," a product description reads. "I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught.""

He want to appeal to the better nature of a person that wants to have sex with children (we're not talking about consenting adults here remember). And to hopefully have less hatred for them if they're caught and shorter sentences"!!

YW :)

I'm torn on this one.

It's kindle-format only, and the way that works is that anyone can upload any old shit they like, provided it doesn't violate copyright. Good people use it to transcribe classics to kindle format and upload them so they can be 'bought' for free.

Apparently bad people (or trolls), do this. I don't think actual pedophiles are seeking public acceptance - I think they are desperately trying to go by unnoticed.

Honestly, I think it's a troll rather than a legit author. Even the description has some pretty egregious spelling errors. And the outcry over this has given the book WAY more publicity than it would have had otherwise.

Absolutely agree with Sparkling.

It's sad that anyone would want to buy or sell such a thing but I'm glad that Amazon allow us to buy Mein Kampf, Lolita, The Anarchist Cookbook and so on.

I wonder whether people will really want to buy this on their Amazon account though. It's going to leave rather an obvious cybertrail for the authorities.

It may well be a troll - but that doesn't excuse Amazon refusing to remove it.

CarmenSanDiego, I want to know what Amazon will put in the 'Recommended for You' section for people who actually buy this

MaMoTTaT, lots of people are reporting it as inappropriate. I think that Amazon will remove it once they find an excuse to do so that doesn't require that they monitor their entire catalog. IIRC, the current TOU for posting kindle content doesn't give them that out.

Google alone indicates quite how much publicity it's generated in a tiny sliver of time; should help nicely in shifting all those other wafer-thin pieces of crap he's currently peddling.

As far as I know no one commenting has even read the thing; smells of generated controversy to me...

Fortunately it no longer seems to be appearing on the Amazon site.

The page is down! It's gone!

I missed it. What was it?