Amazon Shows Need for Open eBook Standards

Courtesy Linux Today  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 08:04

Tech Treasures: "Last week Amazon did something despicable. They violated the privacy of every Kindle user when without warning they remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle Readers."


 

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