Amazon UK Is Selling The WikiLeaks Cables As A Kindle Book

[Turborama]

Source: Business Insider

Apparently Amazon UK has no problem 'hosting' this -- it's been available since November 29 2010. Interesting to note the same title does not appear to be available on Amazon.com.

As advertised on Amazon UK: "WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies. All cables with tags from 1- 5000 (Kindle Edition)"

The author is list as Heinz Duthel. Other books available on his author page include ' Julian Assange. The Whistleblower. Traitor or Hero? and Learn Chinese finger Shadows plays (1).

The full description:

The batch of 250,000 US classified documents released by WikiLeaks to several news outlets, some of whose content was made public Sunday, sheds new light on the sordid nature of American imperialist intrigue and conspiracy around the globe.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-selling-wikileaks-document-as-a-kindle-book-2010-12

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WikiLeaks cables - now available on Amazon

Posted by Ed Ballard - 09 December 2010 15:28

The online retailer has been accused of double standards for selling a Kindle version of the diplomatic files - a week after booting the whistleblowing website from its servers.



Just a week after it cut off the whistleblowing website from its servers, Amazon is selling a version of the WikiLeaks diplomatic files. The cables (available free of charge all over the internet) have been turned into a Kindle e-book by enterprising Amazon user Heinz Duthel.

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On December 1st Amazon became the first website to stop hosting WikiLeaks on its servers, a move praised by the US Government.

Full article: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/12/amazon-wikileaks-website

Also reported by the BBC in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11957367">this article.

[Arctic Dave]

1. So, it's only wrong if they aren't making money off of it.

Go for it hackers, take em out.

[madmax]

3. Don't you just love they hypocrisy

Screw Amazon. The UK Gaurdian is doing a great job publishing the leaks.

Don't pay for it, Julian would not approve ;)

[Joanne98]

2. Op_payback is launching an attack on Amazon.com

Op_Payback
.TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM !!! INSTRUCTIONS: http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html You LOIC will start in 2 hours. #wikileaks #payback #ddos
about 2 hours ago via Chromed Bird

.TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOCKED ON!!! INSTRUCTIONS: http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html <-- IGNORE THE WARNING! #wikileaks #payback #ddos
about 2 hours ago via Chromed Bird

.TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOCKED ON!!!
about 2 hours ago via Chromed Bird .@GeistianPSN call us Anonymous.
about 3 hours ago via web .luizaprado

@Op_Payback Amazon selling Wikileaks cables for Kindle. Sickening. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EEOLIU?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1
about 3 hours ago via Netvibes Official Widget
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[valerief]

4. Ho ho ho!!!!

[bhikkhu]

5. So they boot the free information off their servers, then turn around and sell it?

Even for our Corporate Masters, that's some cojones theres...

[Raschel]

8. USA - should be UCA. United Corporations of America.

[struggle4progress]

6. "Heinz Duthel" seems to have an electronic storefront at Amazon

As far as I can tell, links from Amazon pages to the storefront page seem to have been disabled

[bemildred]

7. Dang! Profiting from selling stolen classified material.

Better hang them high.