Amazon Channels Orwell in Its Latest Blast

Anybody who reads Amazon's latest volley in the Amazon-Hachette war and then David Streitfeld's takedown of it on the New York Times's web site will know that Amazon - either deliberately or with striking ignorance - distorted a George Orwell quote to make it appear that he was against low-priced paperbacks when he was actually for them.

This recalls the irrelevant but delicious irony that the one time Amazon exercised its ability to claw back ebooks it had sold was when they discovered that they were selling unauthorized ebooks of Orwell's "1984″.