It sounds unbelievable but Amazon has reached into peoples Kindles and deleted George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm and dropped them down the "memory hole" and this was no accident but done on purpose.
If you thought you owned the works you purchased for your Kindle you were wrong.
Here is the link to the story from today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/techn ... mazon.html
This practice is shameful in the extreme.
Comments anyone?
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Amazon Deletes George Orwell From Kindle!!!
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by Erasmus_Folly » 19 Jul 2009, 08:06
One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.
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Post Number:#2 by Scott » 21 Jul 2009, 17:01
It appears that the copies people had purchased were sold illegally.
So one could make the argument that what happened is similar to if someone sells you a stolen purse, in that you never actually owned the purse and maybe the purse needs to be taken back and you refunded the money you spent. Either way, it's a tricky situation.
So one could make the argument that what happened is similar to if someone sells you a stolen purse, in that you never actually owned the purse and maybe the purse needs to be taken back and you refunded the money you spent. Either way, it's a tricky situation.
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Post Number:#3 by The Mythwriter » 14 Aug 2009, 14:28
At least everyone was refunded, but even though I was never going to buy a Kindle, I now have yet another reason. Why should they control what files you put on your personal device? That's like saying you can only buy paper books from this publisher, and if you buy from another, we come to your home and take the book. I can see why copyrights might interfere and give them cause... the whole things is just a bad idea to me.
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Amazon Deletes George Orwell From Kindle!!!
Post Number:#4 by Fran » 14 Aug 2009, 16:16
That's scarily Orwellian ... I'll stick with the old fashioned paperbacks?
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Post Number:#5 by Hana » 15 Aug 2009, 08:28
The irony of this entire situation would be laughable if it weren’t so ominous. I heard about this on NPR and was horrified. There was no warning, nothing – fffth- just gone. And then came the explanation.
No.
I do not have a reading device. I do not want a reading device. I will stick to books. I will amass so many of them that if a day comes that we move into a world that is a bastardized child of Orwell and Bradburys’ nightmares, they will have to burn down my whole house just to be rid of them.
“Each time your hand is slapped the sting of shock lessens but the expectation of punishment grows and you learn not to reach at all.” All hail Pavlov.
No.
I do not have a reading device. I do not want a reading device. I will stick to books. I will amass so many of them that if a day comes that we move into a world that is a bastardized child of Orwell and Bradburys’ nightmares, they will have to burn down my whole house just to be rid of them.
“Each time your hand is slapped the sting of shock lessens but the expectation of punishment grows and you learn not to reach at all.” All hail Pavlov.
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