Books/Preorders missing from Amazon

saskir

@BartzBB If you move it to the back, then yes. Else they would have mentioned a removal.

I find it concerning that Kobo also follows. Thought Canadians would be more liberal. Makes me wonder who will be next. Book Depository was not surprising as Amazon bought them.

Korppi

Any news on How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord?
Right now it's only available from Nook and BookWalker on PC aside from here.

Also, might like to add BookWalker links to the volume pages of that, as it's only listed for the latest volume here while the whole series is available on BW.

sniper_samurai

@Korppi It's still on Play Books atm.

Jon Mitchell

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lighthawk96

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Jason Maranto

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Rahul Balaggan

I think it is time for the theories to stop here.

Going forward this topic will only be about what books are being taken off various stores.

At the end of the day it is a news topic, meant to inform.

HarmlessDave

@Rahul-Balaggan - since this is now 12 pages long and filled with many side discussions, would it make sense to lock it and start over with a more focused topic? Perhaps with a complete listing in the first post?

Rahul Balaggan

@HarmlessDave

RE: locking I will consider, I still do not want to do that because this is an ongoing issue and people will want to comment if more is taken down.

The opening post is complete in regards to e-books, the only thing not there is the physical books being taken off of bookdepository, and the recent Kobo take downs, which should hopefully be resolved soon.

For now I believe that we have hopefully entered a period of calm in this topic, so it should be fine for now...

Jason Maranto

Ironic that I get censored in a topic about censorship. I guess that's what having the wrong opinion gets you.

And before you claim I was off topic I was responding to a similarly off topic post (which is still not censored)... so make of that what you will.

myskaros

@Jason-Maranto We don't know why the books were taken down because we were given no reason. If you want to discuss politics, please take it elsewhere.

Travis Butler

@myskaros said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:

@Jason-Maranto We don't know why the books were taken down because we were given no reason. If you want to discuss politics, please take it elsewhere.

Thank you.

Jon Mitchell

do we know if this is on Amazon in USA only (or is amazon.uk, amazon.nz ) whatever still listing these? I saw that they are still available in Japan, but what about other countries where English is common?

Rahul Balaggan

@Jon-Mitchell

The opening post does cover that:

Amazon Region Restrictions
These books have been REGION-RESTRICTED; they still appear as LIVE on KDP, but are only available on amazon.co.jp. The store listings still exist on other Amazon regions, but they say they cannot be purchased. We have not been informed of why this occurred or what can be done to have the region restriction lifted.

lighthawk96

So I have a question. Is Kobo Canadian owned or Japanese owned? I have seen it stated as both but which is It? Book Walker as far as I have seen is 100% Japanese owned but I am confused on Kobo's ownership.

TheGrimLich

@lighthawk96 It began as a Canadian company and was purchased by the Japanese Rakuten corporation. So... while it's owned by a Japanese corporation, I think functionally it's Canadian.

Timmaaah

The real fear that I have regarding the whole business with Amazon taking books down that have more ecchi content is that it will start to influence what titles get picked up in the worry that they may not appease the Amazon gods.
Almost all of my most wanted series are all ones that have some of the questionable content that Amazon is banning, no matter how tame it is.

saskir

@Jon-Mitchell They also Ban them Amazon Germany. Although some Volumes were strangely longer available for purchase there.

@Jason-Maranto said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:

Ironic that I get censored in a topic about censorship. I guess that's what having the wrong opinion gets you.

And before you claim I was off topic I was responding to a similarly off topic post (which is still not censored)... so make of that what you will.

See edit below I assume your opinion (if I regard what @myskaros said) was something along the line of. "Western goverments try to stamp out any ecchi content or damn censorship". And this right after it was stated this topic should focus on taken down books or where there are censoring attempts. So not really censorship more bringing the topic back to its roots. Else we will have 12 more sides about speculations. And it is pretty clear no one knows exactly why Amazon takes it down as they clearly not state it. But we can take Kobo as a guideline.

So I just checked here in germany with a local bookstore (and some online retailers). All physicals are still available to buy from them. Still the physicals are also available from Amazon. Just wanted to check as I know our beloved BPjM (think about the MPPC in the US which doesn't exist anymore) is trigger happy for such things (they once even put the book "Maus" which got an Eisner award on the index).

EDIT: before I spam more here. Yes I should have refrained from speculating about Jason Marantos' post. Lapse of good judgement even though I posted before that the thread was meant to be more focused. So sorry for this.

Khaos

@saskir This had already transpired hours ago, but since you felt you had to voice and bring it back up, I will as well. You are now yourself speculating since you didn't read the post(I had btw). You're are also mistaken in the timeline. @Jason-Maranto post came before Rahul's directive to stay on topic and because of this I don't believe ~~myskaros~~(my bad) Rahul was in the right to delete his post. It would be understanding if it did fall after, but this was not the case...and since it wasn't, then ALL posts prior to Rahul's that weren't on topic and about speculating/'politics' should be removed. So I get the feeling it was something that maybe rubbed a specific group the wrong way.

myskaros

@Khaos said in Books/Preorders missing from Amazon:

I don't believe myskaros was in the right to delete his post.

I didn't delete anything though??? And frankly neither of you (@saskir) should be continuing that conversation in this topic. It was simply getting out of hand for an informational news post. If you want to argue over censorship or political correctness, make a new topic.