What happened? Was it an accident? A little digging showed that, like the Earl of Strafford, Amazon s motto was Thorough. It was not just that a book that had been listed and sold by Amazon for the last three years was out of stock or unavailable. It had disappeared without a trace, more or less like Nikolai Yezhov standing next to Josef Stalin in that notorious photo by the Moscow Canal. One day he is seen smiling next to the great leader. The next day he is gone, airbrushed from history.
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So it was with When Harry Became Sally. Amazon had pushed it into the oubliette; the book was gone, canceled by the wardens of wokeness at Amazon. Further inquiries show that it was also gone from the Kindle store and from Audible, the audiobooks emporium that is owned by Amazon. As of this writing, the book is still available at Barnes and Noble and other emporia, including at the Encounter Books website.