He may see it. I'm active at Mobileread, and he at least touches base there; the thread about this is 21 pages and counting, so he's aware it's being discussed.

But I don't expect him to react, because anyone who conflates rape-in-fiction with "advocating violence" is obviously not going to be persuaded by appeals to either logic or free speech tolerance; he is happy to find an excuse to stop carrying content that disturbs him. And unlike having a censorship policy from the start, he can insist this is all just PayPal's fault--except, of course, for the part where he says "I agree with PayPal that there's just no reason a bookstore should carry this icky, icky subject matter."

It won't matter if he's swarmed with examples of these "icky" subjects that are beautiful, moving, or groundbreaking literature; he's decided that only perverts would want to read such things, and why would he cater to perverts? And if there *is* some real art mixed in with the depravity, well, real artists should be able to change topics, right?