Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
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#2> Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do.
It indeed is, I had the same experience. Good idea to asking here, you might just find some
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#3I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
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#4I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
That, combined with that it appears to be aimed at "depressed, disabled, and broke folks" (their words, from that link) and I can imagine some people took offense and reported it.
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#6Just checked, interestingly it is still available for on demand order via other channels. Wonder if they still print it and only delist on their own frontend [0]. Maybe it is a bit of compensation if they profit from the Streisand effect.
Regarding Amazon I find it funny that they actually engage quite a few people e.g. for tech support of end users. I think they know where to optimize..
[0] https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/suggestartikel/A1067374317
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#7I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
That can't be it. Their are hundreds of books on Amazon with far worse words in the title.
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Dunno, hating on Amazon (in particular, for their counterfeit item problem) seems to be a pretty common commenter topic on HN. That, and talking about how Google search results are terrible now.
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#9I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.
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#10I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
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