Readers United, a group started by Amazon to counter Authors United, published a letter Friday criticizing publisher Hachette and asking the e-commerce giant’s supporters to email Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch to defend Amazon’s point of view.

“We will never give up our fight for reasonable e-book prices,” the letter read. “We know making books more affordable is good for book culture. We’d like your help. Please email Hachette and copy us.”

According to The Christian Science Monitor, Amazon and Hachette have been in heated negotiations over e-book pricing. The e-commerce giant wants to lower the cost of e-books, while Hachette is making the case for higher prices. CS Monitor notes has that Amazon has taken the struggle public, eliminating pre-order buttons and discounts from Hachette titles.

In their letter, Amazon cited 1984 author George Orwell, but misrepresented the author in doing so.

“The famous author George Orwell came out publicly and said about the new paperback format, if ‘publishers had any sense, they would combine against them and suppress them,'” the letter read. “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.”

However, The New York Times points out that Orwell actually liked Penguin paperbacks and wasn’t “suggesting collusion.”

The NY Times reveals the rest of the quote, saying that Orwell wrote in the New English Weekly on March 5, 1936: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if the other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.”

Orwell went on to write:

“It is of course a great mistake to imagine that cheap books are good for the book trade. Actually it is just the other way about … The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.”

The irony of the misrepresentation wasn’t lost on the Internet. “Altering Orwell’s words to fit your agenda seems rather … Orwellian,” Josh Centers, a tech blogger for TidBITS, tweeted.