Silbury Hill 180
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Nice one amazon. I know, i know - massive capitalist retail monolith that it is - but that email sums up an important point... and i'm glad the folks at the world's largest bookstore are aware of it...

It's not up to bookstores to "endorse" the content of anything they sell. If it was; then we'd all be at the mercy of the unaccountable corporates who run the book-retail conglomerates to tell us which books we may or may not read.

Why is it that every majot book retailer (with the exception of WHSmiths) has refused to stock Paul Outhwaites fantastic Automatic Living book?

Seems they'll stock unagreeable books when it is unagreeable to others, but when a book includes thinly disguised criticism of they own ilk they censor it.

Double standards?