Bezos Book Burning: Amazon Bans All Of Roosh V's Nine Books

Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won't tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years. @CreateSpace & @AmazonKDP: can you tell me why the books have been removed? pic.twitter.com/gK2YQyjyap

— Roosh (@rooshv) September 10, 2018

Starting on Friday, September 7, Amazon has gone on a rampage and banned the paperback and Kindle editions of nine of my books, including my new release Game. The sales pages now give you an error message. Despite repeatedly trying to get answers from Amazon via phone and email, they will not tell me why the books have been removed.

The removals started on the first day Game was released On Friday I received an email from both Amazon's Createspace (paperback) and Kindle Direct Publishing divisions that stated three of my books have been removed because they were in violation of "content guidelines."

The most relevant parts of their guidelines state the following:

Pornography
We don't accept pornography or offensive depictions of graphic sexual acts.

Offensive content
What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect.

Illegal and infringing content
We take violations of laws and proprietary rights very seriously. It is your responsibility to ensure that your content doesn't violate laws or copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights. Just because content is freely available does not mean you are free to copy and sell it.

Amazon won't tell me which guideline I broke I contacted them by phone when I first got the notice, but they stated that the team in charge of removing books doesn't have phone support. Through email, they told me they could not give me any details.

On Sunday, five more books were banned.

Then on Monday morning I wake up to find that my new book Game was also banned.

I called again but was given the same runaround. The phone rep could not give me details or connect me with someone who could help.

I believe the bannings began because the launch of Game was extremely successful. I sold 2,000 books in the first two days and hit the top 700 on Amazon paperback on the first day. Even before Friday’s launch, Game was already in Amazon’s top 10,000. As far as I know, Amazon didn’t receive a single complaint about the content, but they removed it anyway.

Digital book burning https://t.co/JGeVM1uemN

— Gab.ai (@getongab) September 10, 2018

Whatever your views on Roosh V - this should be alarming to all of us.

Amazon has removed all of his books from the marketplace without notice.

I thought Amazon was above this sort of thing until now, but it looks like the tide is turning for the worse. https://t.co/hF0V5EiZdA

— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphylive) September 10, 2018

One of the conundrums of free speech today is the total domination of distribution by private companies. Amazon’s share of of US print sales is 46%. Its share of ebook sales is 83%. (https://t.co/Uq9D3Myxli)

At what point does banning become censoring?

Here's a case study: https://t.co/EfzDqx0Bib

— Jeff Giesea🌿 (@jeffgiesea) September 10, 2018

Amazon has begun banning books. https://t.co/NWTqGEgJUs

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) September 10, 2018

It's only just beginning https://t.co/ck6VO1HDCb

— Roosh (@rooshv) September 10, 2018