Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle


	Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle

ratilfar

7-18-2009 5:13 PM

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ratilfar says:

Amazon appears to have deleted other purchased e-books from Kindles recently. Customers commenting on Web forums reported the disappearance of digital editions of the Harry Potter books and the novels of Ayn Rand over similar issues.

Amazon’s published terms of service agreement for the Kindle does not appear to give the company the right to delete purchases after they have been made. It says Amazon grants customers the right to keep a “permanent copy of the applicable digital content.”

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7-18-2009 8:59 PM

kkcapricorn

Censorship vaguely disguised.

7-18-2009 9:01 PM

ratilfar

And ownership made meaningless.

7-19-2009 7:55 AM

rainsong111

&the fact that such books were deleted gives you a taste of 1984's big brother...

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