HTTP:: Amazon Remotely Deletes Orwell Books from Kindle
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In what is turning out to be a very bad move by Amazon, the book seller informed some of its customers on Thursday that some e-books they bought and thought they owned had been deleted from their Kindle reader and they'd be getting a refund instead. Not surprisingly, they weren't happy and turned very vocal about it. Having a company remotely remove an item you have purchased is enough to make you begin to believe in Big Brother conspiracy theories. Oh, and the best part, the e-books in question are George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), the classic dystopian novel about a totalitarian regime, and Animal Farm. “The Kindle edition books Animal Farm by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) & Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) were removed from the Kindle store and are no longer available for purchase. When this occured [sic.], your purchases were automatically refunded. You can still locate the books in!
the Kindle store, but each has a status of not yet available. Although a rarity, publishers can decide to pull their content from the Kindle store,†Amazon representatives said, cited in their forums. While the explanation itself makes sense, the thought of a company having complete control over your content has been a wake u...
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