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amazonfail = PRfail

Jon Reed | 11:57 am 14 Apr 09 Comments 1

My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal:
“Why don’t they just burn the books? They’d be better off and it’s very visual on television.”
I still can’t quite believe that lovely, liberal Seattle-based Amazon would go in for the sort of virtual book burning we have seen at the weekend – [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, book burning, censorship, Channel 4 News, fail, gay, Gore Vidal, lesbian, PR, Twitter —

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