Amazon Removes, Then Restores Self-Published Star Wars Inspired Kindle Book
UPDATE: Amazon has contacted AppNewser to report that they have restored this title to the Kindle Store. We checked it out and it is now available.
Amazon has removed the self-published Stars Wars memoir A Long Time Ago: Growing up with and out of Star Wars from the Kindle Store citing trademark as the reason.
The author, Gib Van Ert explained the removal in an email to Boing Boing. He writes that Amazon’s “emails are vague, but they seem to being saying that I have to have Lucasfilm’s permission before selling on their store a book that talks about Star Wars. It’s
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