Bill Curry, an Amazon spokesman, said: "We have received the letter.

Bill Curry, an Amazon spokesman, was even more sanguine.

"We sell products to children that are purchased by adults," said Bill Curry, an Amazon spokesman.

Craig Berman, an Amazon spokesman, acknowledged that the site had broken down early last week.

An Amazon spokesman, Bill Curry, countered that the system was a boon for everyone in the book business.

The auction received nearly 10,000 bids and raised some $200,000 for charity, an Amazon spokesman said.

When the report came out, Amazon spokesmen called it "silly and chock full of errors."

(An Amazon spokesman could not account for the problem.)

An Amazon spokesman said that the company was considering using blank boxes when it shipped products purchased on other sites.

An Amazon spokesman said the show was created to eliminate the "separation between the artist discovery experience and the follow-up purchase opportunity".