Apple hits Amazon with a well-timed zinger

24 Jun 2014 • fortune.com

A few hours after the deal was made public, a reporter with good connections with Apple PR posted a screen shot of Hachette titles being discounted on Apple’s iTunes bookstore. “Apple is happy,” Peter Kafka wrote on Re/Code, in a widely retweeted headline, “to sell you the Hachette books Amazon won’t stock.”

Grab some popcorn.  This is great stuff.  Regardless of whether companies are people or not, sometimes they can be quite funny to watch.