If I was in the book business I would supply my customers with any book they wanted to read no questions asked. Hell, if one were so inclined, one could build a based business model around just that. Patriot Book Company. If you want to read it, we’ll find it and send it to you, for a fee. Free shipping!
Publicly traded companies are private property held by members of the public who are private citizens, so even if they are a monopoly it doesn't really matter, because then they should be broken up, and they will still have the agency to choose which books to sell.
Anyway this is besides the point, the government has no part in the Actions of Amazon. So the idea that its somehow illegal to read certain books is just wrong.
Allowing private businesses to decide what products to supply is a slippery slope?
I don't think you would expect a smaller privately owned bookshop to stock a book on Queer Trans Feminist Theory if they didnt want to.
If I was in the book business I would supply my customers with any book they wanted to read no questions asked. Hell, if one were so inclined, one could build a based business model around just that. Patriot Book Company. If you want to read it, we’ll find it and send it to you, for a fee. Free shipping!
*excepting the obvious like child porn
But there is a difference between starting a book store that delivers any book you want and forcing every private bookstore to sell all books.
They key is you want to supply every book I dont imagine a evangelist bookshop would like having to sell "How to raise a child as a Homosexual couple"
Publicly traded companies are not private businesses. Especially when they hold monopoly power.
Publicly traded companies are private property held by members of the public who are private citizens, so even if they are a monopoly it doesn't really matter, because then they should be broken up, and they will still have the agency to choose which books to sell.
Publishers won't publish books that can't be sold on Amazon. Amazon controls the market.
It seems like this private company has more power over this specific market than the federal government does.
Gonna need a source that no company will publish a book that cant be sold on Amazon.
Also there is a thing called self publishing.
Anyway this is besides the point, the government has no part in the Actions of Amazon. So the idea that its somehow illegal to read certain books is just wrong.