Amazon complains about news coverage it won’t comment on

Amazon has finally broken its silence about its dispute with Hachette: “we are not optimistic that this will be resolved soon,” a post by the Amazon Books Team, on Amazon, says.

“The statement is remarkable in several ways,” David Streitfeld, who’s covered the dispute for The New York Times, writes, among them that the company suggests customers who want Hachette product not in stock “purchase a new or used version from one of our third-party sellers or from one of our competitors.”

Here’s one more rather remarkable part of the statement: Amazon says the dispute has “generated a variety of coverage, presumably in part because the negotiation is with a book publisher instead of a supplier of a different type of product. Some of the coverage has expressed a relatively narrow point of view.”

Text italicized by me to convey the disbelief anyone who’s followed this story may be experiencing.

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