> he can at any time publish a revision and be done with it

How can you revise things that aren’t mistakes?

funny you say that because revising is exactly what he did, so somehow he managed to get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text

are we better for it? probably not, but then again he's not forced to publish it into the low cost mass market, and knowing what the audience wants is basically his job description so...

>push the uncommon vernacular out of the text

You're entirely comfortable with only being able to publish the lowest common denominator of things which will be comprehensible to everyone, at the risk of being automatically pulled from publication if an author steps too far from a style that's perfectly clear to the reader?

never said that. what I said is that Amazon is mass market quality and know thy audience. if one wants to pursue artistry it's fine, but it's a different set of rules with a different product marketability

> get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text

Is using slang pretentious now?

no, but believing one own English to be universal and above scrutiny most definitely is

It’s not above scrutiny, but it’s his choice to use it and it isn’t a definitively incorrect choice.

A typo is not that. A typo is when one mistakenly spells something incorrectly, or incorrectly adds or removes a word to make sentence ungrammatical.

If it was intentional, then it’s author fiat. You don’t have to like it, but that’s no excuse for removing a book from a store.

To note, if Amazon themselves say they have an issue with his language, that’s their prerogative, but right now it just looks like abuse of their reporting system.

as an aside I honestly doubt Amazon acted on a single word being flagged, because that level of scrutiny would be hurting its bottom line, but we only have one side of the story so we have to act upon that alone, still.

anyway, that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on. Amazon only obligation is with their customers and he's free to pursue less mainstream options if he wants uncompromised freedom

You:

> so somehow he managed to get off his horse

Also you:

> that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on

and? there are no laws that forbid grandstanding and loving money. Moreover those are his actions, the contradiction, or better yet hypocrisy, is on him. of course a description of the events would and should contain more of the same, since he's all barks but no bites to his feeding hand.