Doubleplusungood: That Copy Of 1984 On Your Kindle Is Now Gone

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 07/17/2009 - 19:44

For quite some time we've been pointing out the simple fact that, unlike with a physical book, you don't really own the ebooks that you buy on your Amazon Kindle.

Even worse, Amazon can simply delete them at will. In fact, that's exactly what's happened to (of all books!) George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm .

Talk about irony. People who legitimately purchased those books discovered that they're now gone, as the publisher has decided that ebook versions...

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