Elon Musk tweets ‘different Amazon’ after coronavirus ebook for a short while blocked

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday took goal at Amazon on Twitter for certainly blocking the sale of a self-published ebook about the coronavirus pandemic by previous New York Times press reporter Alex Berenson. Amazon has really thinking about that reversed the option, mentioning the ebook was blocked in error. 

“Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk said in a tweet directed at Berenson and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Musk consisted of another tweet that blocking the ebook was “insane.”

Berenson on Thursday tweeted an image of an email that appears from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing arm mentioning his ebook, Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns, does not abide by service’s requirements and would not be marketed. The tweet activated criticism of Amazon from some people on socials media, including Musk. 

Later Thursday, Berenson tweeted that the ebook was live, and thanked Musk and “everyone who helped.”

A representative for Amazon verified on Friday that the book was removed in error and is now sold. The service also apparently notified Reuters that its option to license its sale was not due to Musk. 

Musk has really tweeted many times about the coronavirus pandemic, at first, making up in March that “the coronavirus panic is dumb,” and in the future speaking out versus lockdown standards. The Tesla CEO was also related to a public difference with local authorities over resuming business’s plant in Fremont, California.