"I take it personally that the company doesn’t think it owes me even a half-baked explanation for why I can’t buy some books from it. " Uh - what? What if Ama

"I take it personally that the company doesn’t think it owes me even a half-baked explanation for why I can’t buy some books from it. " Uh - what? What if Amazon had never stocked books by Hachette in the first place, would he still have had a tantrum? There are a lot of items I can't buy on Amazon. There are many more items that I choose not to buy from Amazon, in order to support other retailers. But I don't take it personally and neither do they. They don't tell me why they don't stock certain items and I don't ask. It's business. "You won’t hold it against me if I still stream free programs until my account comes up for renewal later this year and I bail, will you?" Yes, yes I will. If you're going to trumpet your principles you'd better stick to them.