Buying out the book has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Duh! If the first printing is sold out, the publisher is likely to have a second printing, & maybe 1 million copies, & maybe double the price, too. If you can’t prevent the first publishing, you sure can’t prevent the second, or third, or fourth, ....
Will the Pentagon continue buying out the book until the publisher gets tired of the money?
Read the article. The second/subsequent printings have been censored by the DoD.
The publisher and the DOD have agreed to a “safe” version. The DOD wants to buy the initial 10000 copy print run and destroy that printing.
The problem is there are copies that have already been distributed to reviewers, media outlets.
Don't worry. We're the ones paying for them. Too bad we'll never get to read what we bought.
We're being censored. This administration will tell us what's acceptable reading and what is not. Welcome to the U.S.S.A.
Have a nice day (that's an executive order!).
It’s even dumber than that. Hasn’t the Pentagon ever heard of Kindle?
ROFL! That was my first thought too. Wouldn’t the publisher just keep pumping out the book as long its being gobbled up?