Hi all, this is Alwin, the writer of this "hilarious" email...<p>I am amazed to find all this about my email :-)
I was just being frank and trying to be clear, upfront, before any possible disabling of our Amazon access (which has not happened yet).<p>My customers are used to lengthy, detailed emails. They respect and expect my honesty, good news or bad news.<p>I agree that I could (should?) have been more apologetic.<p>But please note that my iPhone apps are <i>not</i> using the Amazon API at all. Amazon claims that Amazon data is being used on a mobile device, that is, data that once has been downloaded from Amazon. Which should be rare, because we have our own online media databases and our Windows / Mac software only queries Amazon for barcodes that our not found in our own databases, as a fallback. 
The "violation" of the Amazon ToS (if any) is very minor and rare.<p>But yes, it IS a violation and I will have to deal with the consequences. And informing my customers was the first thing on my mind. Which I did, fast and with all details.