Amazon - doing well by doing Good

The thing that is most interesting about the whole Wikileaks affaire is how it continues to shine a light on what people say vs what they do. Favourite of the day - Amazon, who threw Wikileaks off their servers last week because of the illegal content, is allowing people to sell the leaks this week as a "for Kindle" product. The difference? This way, Amazon makes money - Peter Kafka explains the Amazon logic.

Sorry about the confusion. But of course it’s OK for us to sell books about Wikileaks that contain Wikileaks data we don’t want to host ourselves. There’s a big difference between a data dump and writing that incorporates and comments on that data. See, for instance, the New York Times and every other news outlet that has written about WikiLeaks while using information supplied by Wikileaks. We sell the Times and other periodicals that report on the topic, and we’re going to sell this book, too.

Ah, the price of a high moral stance.... and given that there has been no Letter from Liebermann this time, one can assume that what he was so terribly upset about was not teh leaks, but that they were free - thats just so goddamn Unamerican

Kafka-esque indeed