This just in from Mike Daisey, who commented on my “This Is Not A Glitch” post: a source inside Amazon tells him it wasn’t precisely a “glitch” but a translation error.

From an email exchange Mike forwarded to me between himself and Anthony Hecht, a reporter at The Stranger (I have Mike’s permission to quote):

From: Mike Daisey *email redacted*

Date: April 13, 2009 2:00:34 PM EDT

To: Anthony Hecht anthony @thestranger.com

Subject: Re: In case it gets lost in the comments…

Well, this is the real sto