At the launch of the Kindling, Jeff Bezos said: “Book-burning is a fine and honourable tradition that’s largely gone out of fashion since the end of the Third Reich, and we think its time has come again. The Kindling reader comes pre-loaded with the novels of Dan Brown, for what I trust are obvious reasons, and subscribers can go to the Amazon website for more book recommendations. You know the sort of thing: ‘If you enjoyed settling fire to Dan Brown’s books, you may enjoy incinerating these.’”
Those literary titans Chris Moyles and Russell Brand are watching developments with more than impartial interest...
