Shelf Awareness has quietly posted an online amendment to their Saturday dispatch titled “Amazon’s ‘Declaration of War.'” By later that morning, when the publication sent out a press release to the media, they had learned that Amazon’s price cuts were in response to Overstock.com’s Thursday press release promising to price books 10 percent lower than Amazon. The online story was revised to remove the inflammatory headline and the quote from which it was taken, but these changes were not flagged in that media alert. “In our eagerness to get out the updated version, we neglected to add a line that […]
