I’ve seen some speculation floating around about the Macmillan/Amazon thing that the Amazon response on the Kindle forum was not official.  Apparently… it was.

See, this weekend I sent this message to customer service.

I am deeply dismayed by Amazon’s removal of Macmillan books from their catalog. Since this covers a significant number of books I read as well as books I’ve written, I can’t see the need to maintain a relationship with Amazon.com anymore.

How do I delete my associate account??

Today, I got response and I thought you’d be interested in the way it opens.

Hello,

Thanks for sending us your comments. We will e-mail you when these titles are available again, which we hope will be soon. For more information regarding Macmillan books, please see the latest update posted here:

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/?cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2MEGQWTNGIMHV

However, if you still would like us to close your Amazon.com Associates account…

So apparently, the key word in the original response was the word “ultimately” as in, “at the end” but not now.