Amazon (temporarily) banned sales of Alex Berenson's new book, UNREPORTED TRUTHS ABOUT COVID-19 AND THE LOCKDOWNS. Here is what he says about it.

[Mark Crispin Miller]

His take on the NYTimes, where he used to work, is especially noteworthy,

as is the role of Elon Musk in Amazon's reversal.

MCM

From Alex Berenson:

Professor Miller,

I believe Amazon is censoring more widely than is realized. That is certainly true of COVID-19 books, 

which it is refusing to sell through KDP [Kindle Direct Publishing] as a matter of course. I'm not sure 

what would happen to traditional publishers, who presumably would have more leverage. But KDP is 

such an important platform and so many books are self-published now that even KDP-"only" censorship 

is significant.

I don't really think it's about Big Pharma (which I covered for the Times). So far, the pharma companies 

have not really benefited from COVID, with the relatively minor exception of Gilead and remdesivir. I think 

the vaccine issue will be big - that market will be in the tens of billions, at a minimum, and I suspect the 

companies and public health authorities are going to work together to press employers to require employees 

to get vaccinated (there are already public signals of this). I am NOT an anti-vaxxer - I am vaccinated, my 

children are vaccinated, my wife (a physician) is vaccinated. But getting vaccines that have been around 

for decades or generations for diseases that have serious mortality or morbidity for children or young adults 

is very different than what we're proposing for COVID.

No, I think this is a very strong effort by the public health establishment to beat down any questions about 

the efficacy and side effects of lockdowns, an effort abetted and even driven by places like the Times. Nearly 

the entire media is on board here, and the issue has become incredibly politicized. When I worked for the Times, 

it leaned left, but it was basically center-left, a voice of the establishment, and the bias was more in the story 

selection than anything else. Reporters were expected to (and did) write with relative objectivity, avoid snark 

and opinion, make sure they gave the subjects of articles or the targets of investigations a chance to respond. 

We knew the rules and we basically followed them. Didn't mean we couldn't write strong investigative pieces 

(I wrote plenty), but we didn't have politics on every page. That's gone now.

Having noticed that his book is now available, both in Kindle form and in traditional print, I followed up

with a question about how that happened. His reply:

They reversed themselves because of the outcry, and specifically Elon Musk. It is available.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/elon-musk-calls-for-amazon-split-after-alex-berenson-claims-censorship.html.