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Whistleblower book Meta blocked from promotion is now an Amazon best seller (mashable.com)
submitted 6 months ago by grid11@lemy.nl to c/books@lemmy.world
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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Barnes and Noble has it. don't buy from amazon.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Even better, buy it through bookshop.org and also support a local bookstore: https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/22213433

The hard cover is on back order, but they sell an ebook version.

[–] Hafty@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This link goes to a 404 error

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks! Should be fixed!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

"Book from a whistleblower - titled 'Meta' - that was declined from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon"

Sometimes I hate the whole "proper prose title" that articles use

Edit:
Perhaps it's "Book from whistleblower that Meta blocked from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon".
I didn't read the article. The title broke my brain

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Heck, prose aside, is there something wrong with commas?

[–] slartibartfast@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago

Those are used to replace "and" obviously.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

It's just that punctuation is not meant to be used in titles.

English has a bunch of weird rules.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"Book from a whistleblower - titled 'Meta' - that was declined from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon"

No? "Book from a whistleblower that Meta blocked from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon ".

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Book from a whistleblower, that Meta blocked from being promoted, is now a best seller on Amazon

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Book from a whistleblower—which Meta blocked from being promoted—is now a best seller on Amazon.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meta promotes books?
Updated the comment

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 6 months ago

Funniest thing, I would’ve never known about this book if Meta hadn’t tried to block the sales of it. Definitely going to read it and see how it is.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Barbara strikes again!

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago

Streisand! Streisand! Streisand!

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

I wonder if we could get Barbara to endorse or at least comment on this book on whatever social media she's on.

[–] nick@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

Whoops!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

How the fuck is an anti-disparagement clause even allowed to exist and how the fuck is it enforceable 8 years after she no longer works for the company, that's absolutely bullshit.

Normally I would hope for the government to step in and say this is not remotely legal. But unfortunately our government is currently in the hands of billionaire buddy Donnie F Trump.

[–] Grimm@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Adding it to the TBR.