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Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm

Posted by Soulskill on from the miniplenty-malquoted-kindle-rectify dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "In a story just dripping with irony, Amazon Kindle owners awoke this morning to discover that 1984 and Animal Farm had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for, and thought they owned. Apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by George Orwell from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. Amazon customer service may or may not have responded to queries by stating, 'We've always been at war with Eastasia.'"

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  1. What it says is by microbee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your data is not safe with us -- Kindle.

    Imagine Bush were going to read the novel from his Kindle at an elementary school..I wonder what his facial reaction would be when he couldn't find the book. Must be very confused. :-)

  2. Re:Stupid stupid stupid by vikstar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The mob is fickle, this will be forgotten in about a week by everyone who isn't a nerd, and then it's business as usual.

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    The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  3. Re:Whatever The Party says by The_Wilschon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey man, I think you've had enough. I'll call a taxi.

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    SIGSEGV caught, terminating

    wait... not that kind of sig.