Orwellian
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,†he said. . .
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
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July 19th, 2009 at 04:16
my most favorite book of all time! a lot of people still don’t know that this is where the idea of big brother came from.
thanks for the link! i was able to find “animal farm”, which i haven’t read yet.