Amazon remotely deletes Orwell e-books from Kindles, unpersons reportedly unhappy

July 17th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Irony_Amazon_remotely_deletes_copies_of_1984_from_Kindles’; If you’re into keeping tabs on irony, check that out. Amazon apparently sent out its robotic droogs last night, deleting copies of the George Orwell novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four from Kindles without explanation, soon after refunding the purchase price. As you can imagine, a lot of humans caught in the thick of Winston and Julia’s love story aren’t very happy — and rightfully so — the view that we “own” the things we buy is pretty fundamental to… ownership. We’re not certain precisely what happened, but it seems that the publisher of said novels, MobileReference, has has changed its mind about selling

composition on the Kindle, and poof! Amazon remotely deleted all previously purchased copies. It’s all a bit Orwellian, is it not? Good thing we “permanently borrowed” hard copies of both from our middle school library, huh? Let Hate Week commence.

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