Author Pulls WikiLeaks E-Book from Amazon

[Hissyspit]

Source: PC Magazine

Author Pulls WikiLeaks E-Book from Amazon

By: Chloe Albanesius
12.09.2010 1 Comment

The author of a WikiLeaks-related e-book has removed the publication from Amazon amidst a controversy surrounding its sale. "We did not remove the title, and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author," an Amazon spokesman said via e-mail.

Separately, Amazon avoided a denial of service attack at the hands of Operation Payback, after the group could not muster enough support for the effort and switched its focus to PayPal.

Author Heinz Duthel was offering his book, titled "WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies," as a download on Amazon's UK Web site. Given that Amazon Web Services recently cut off access to WikiLeaks' servers because - Amazon said - WikiLeaks was hosting illegal information, some WikiLeaks' supporters took note of Duthel's book, suggesting that Amazon refused to host WikiLeaks but was ok with profiting from the sale of the leaked cables.

Amazon denied the charges. The online retailer declined to pull Duthel's e-book themselves because it did not actually include the cables published by WikiLeaks. "This book contains commentary and analysis regarding recent WikiLeaks disclosures, not the original material disclosed via the WikiLeaks website," Amazon wrote in a note on the product detail page.

Read more: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374138,00.asp

[Iterate]

1. I guess we can read about the cables, and talk about the cables,

but we can't actually see the cables, only the high-priests can.

Sounds like church.