Saturday, October 12, 2013

Amazon deleted texts obscene subjects from the catalog Kindle Store. - RBC - RBC.Ru

12.10.2013, 13:19:37 Seattle American online retailer Amazon has announced the removal of your catalog Kindle Store several e-books containing descriptions of scenes of rape, incest and bestiality after the publication of the corresponding report, reports Bi-bi-si.

Among the books for sale are such as, for example, “How I took my daughter drunk” (‘Taking My Drunk Daughter “). Such books can be found in the section of the site works samoopublikovannyh Amazon – areas where the writers offer their own compositions.

Amazon, in turn, takes a percentage of sales, while the bulk of the profits departs authors.

However, Amazon will remove the inappropriate content of the book, the experts found a technology news site The Kernel, while many other books such content remain on sale.

In other online stores, including WHSmith, Kobo and Barnes & Noble, also sold books on similar subjects. Representatives of these riteylerskie the company will respond to requests for comment from the public and the media.

in the Amazon catalog search feature automatically offers content obscene topics users who call seemingly harmless keywords – without monitor the user’s age.

Representatives of the Amazon has not provided comments on the situation, other than to confirm that the book indicated in the report of The Kernel, have been removed.

Against the background of developments in the United States, exacerbated by the socio-political debate about the existence of “hidden” censorship in the media and on the Internet.

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