The retailer began refusing orders late Thursday for coming Hachette books, including J.K. Rowling’s new novel. The paperback edition of Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” — a book Amazon disliked so much it denounced it — is suddenly listed as “unavailable.”
I can't say that I'm surprised. Combine shady business practices, general douchebaggery, highly aggressive business tactics, and insane amount of power and you end up with a situation where everyone loses. Amazon can do whatever it wants and both consumers and publishers will have to give in. Let's see what the antitrust guys and regulators do (when they finally enter this century and figure out how the internet works).