Big Brother: Amazon Remotely Deletes 1984 From Kindles

Courtesy Mashable!  Fri, 07/17/2009 - 16:57

bigbrotherEver bought a book from Barnes and Noble, then turned around to find it missing from your bookshelf and replaced with a voucher?

Bizarre though it may seem, that’s exactly what’s happened to hundreds of owners of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm books, with Amazon remotely deleting copies on user’s Kindles and crediting their accounts.

While this might be understandable if the copies were distributed illegally, the cause here appears to be a publisher which decided...


 

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