"There is the bitter irony to consider that this literary erasure was done by the man who owns the largest bookselling entity on earth. But then Jeff Bezos even back in the early days of Amazon wasn’t really interested in books as such; they just ticked off all the right boxes as objects for retail sale as he planned for planetary conquest. ...Well, one person’s cultural tragedy is another, far richer person’s accidental collateral damage." #Books #publishing https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-one-of-americas-all-time-great-book-sections-rip/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KH3ZDP9JNST60FYQX2F14VF1&_kx=JNVGUelgi74b4lyselS2esGhh0i0HV0KEhphicIdN10.U5D8ER