Kindle erases George Orwell’s Books
July 20, 2009 by Robin Parrish
Filed under Electronics
It was right out of Orwell’s novel 1984, when Big Brother (aka Amazon.com in this instance) without warning its customers, erased the books Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindle ebook inventory. And from the Kindle devices of those who’d paid for the books as well.
Oh, didn’t you know? They can do that. (Continues below image.)
The problem stemmed from the fact that one of Amazon’s digital publishers, a company called MobileReference, had placed the two books for sale on Amazon, without actually owning the rights to do so. When they were notified of the copyright violation, Amazon took the extreme …read more
