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Amazon pulls book on pedophilia after complaints
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Amazon has pulled an electronic book about pedophilia from its online store after complaints and a boycott threat, according to media reports on Thursday.
The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct," by Philip R. Greaves II, went on sale on October 28 and cost $4.79 to download, the reports said.
Amazon initially defended the book's publication in a statement but later withdrew it from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media. Some people said they planned to boycott the store in protest, the reports said.
The book title appeared on the company's website on Thursday but a subsequent message read: "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site."
There was no immediate comment on the reports from Amazon, which is based in Seattle, despite various requests by Reuters.
(Reporting by Matthew Bigg; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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If things work out the way I hope governments will make the book freely available to all pedophiles and sex offenders.
At the very least, someone should take the book apart chapter by chapter and offer instructions on how to counteract this sort of behaviour.




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