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Amazon reverses its ban and restores David Uzal’s “censured” ebook

“The process of revision of images is highly manual and therefore can incur into human error. We are very sorry for all the damage caused by this situation” declared this week, Gustavo Durán, an Amazon representative.

This statement came after Amazon first refused, on March 27th, to release an ebook from the Franco-Spanish writer and artist, David Uzal; Princess Lara or the anticipated biography of whom brought the so-called weak sex to the top of the power ( Princesa Lara o la biografía anticipada de quien llevó el sexo dicho débil a la cumbre del poder) alleging the cover picture, Uzal’s own painting of a naked woman, didn’t meet the guidelines requirements. At that point, the author launched from Madrid an anticensorship campaign which was shared on Spanish social networks and reached media coverage including the influential Brazilian newspaper; A Folha de Sao Paulo. Eventually Amazon reviewed its ban and accepted publication of the controversial ebook. But after spending five weeks campaigning, Uzal was not merely satisfied with a simple email from Amazon. He asked for a public statement. Amazon somehow complied and sent an apologising email with the mention: “Please, feel totally free to make public this message”.

“The one who recognizes his mistake is ennobled by doing so” replied Uzal.

“Even if it was not spontaneously that Amazon reversed its first decision, at the end they showed good-sense, fairness and even a form of humility by declaring they had made a mistake” he added.

Therefore, the case is now closed, but Uzal keeps his guard up since; “if a simple painting generated so much hassle, the contents, which pretends to be an anti politically-correct manifest with an extremely free relation to the body and sexuality, could cause much more uproar. I just regret that this book, which is about politics, revolution and transmuting values was put into the adult fiction category.”


The ebook editated by ebookation (Barcelona), is now available on Amazon and Bubok

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