The drama began with a website: The Kernel, "How Amazon Cashes in on Kindle Filth" which published on Oct 9 an article on how porn is making e-publishers money.
This would have largely gone unnoticed - only because it was not exactly breaking news - if not for the fact that a few British media outlets picked up the story.
A few days later, Britain's Daily Mail claimed that UK bookstore WH Smith profited from "the sale of vile books glorifying violent pornography, rape, incest and bestiality".
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