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Amazon is the world’s biggest book retailer. They rake in some 50% of all consumer spending on books in the U.S. and dominate several foreign markets as well. Pursuant to the 1998 declaration of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos to offer “the good, the bad, and the ugly,” customers once could buy every book that was in print and was legal to sell.


Canadian free speech activist Marc Lemire has been battling his country's censorship authorities for over ten years. Most of this time he has been pretty much alone in his struggle, but now he has received support from one of Canada's most respected civil rights organizations. The goal is to have Canada's censorship laws declared as unconstitutional...

The East German publishing company LiberGraphics had to endure a double assault by Germany's censorship authorities: First the offices were searched for having offered one used copy of a perfectly legal book on Third Reich history, then a book on Jewish power was slated to be banned from the public market...