Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sick, sick, sick but a good example of letting the free market work it's magic

If I were in charge of choosing books for Amazon, I would not have chosen a book sympathetic & helpful to pedophiles, but someone did and the market (customers) reacted loud and clear...and the book is off Amazon. Of course, some people feel some legal authority needs to get involved, but Amazon's inventory is protected by the First Amendment and, no matter how disgusting it was for someone to make the choice to include the book, it is within the rights of the company to do so. Of course, the company had to respond to pressure from the people who buy from Amazon and keep the company in business...and rightly so. It's how the market works.

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