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

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.'"

Comments

Whatever The Party says

[acrobg]

...must be the complete truth. Or else the thought police will come get you.

For your convenience

[rlp]

The Kindle is now equipped with a memory hole.

Re:haha

[TheRon6]

buy real books and support real trees

If by "support" you mean "dismember and ground up," then yes.

Not Big Brother.

[goombah99]

Big Amazon.
for those of you old enough to have seen the schlock sci-fi "rollerball" it's central theme was that big brotherism actually is more likely to be durable under corporate control rather than government control. A kind of facism where the role of the state is secondary.

I think it was big oil in rollerball. but it could have been big amazon.

plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[dgatwood]

plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.

Obligatory Futurama reference: "Death by snoo snoo."

Re:Not Big Brother.

[John Meacham]

Ah. the age old argument. The Future Will Be A Totalitarian Government Dystopia vs. The Future Will Be A Privatized Corporate Dystopia

Re:Not Big Brother.

[sortius_nod]

"A little lower and a lot softer" - Zapp Brannigan

Re:Not Big Brother.

[Minwee]

I heard a rumour once that there was a remake of Rollerball, but fortunately I was mistaken.

Along with other classic films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ocean's Eleven, Psycho, The Shining, Death Race 2000 and even the Thunderbirds, I am happy to say that there was never a remake of Rollerball.

La la la la la...

Re:Not Big Brother.

[Stormwatch]

Indeed. I'm also glad that there were no sequels to The Matrix... too much potential to fuck it up entirely.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[rogerdr]

Do not read the above comment. It has been reviewed by upper party members and found to be subversive lies. The writer will be reeducated. Big Brother loves you!

Re:Not Big Brother.

[bill_mcgonigle]

La la la la la...

When I took my daughter to see Iron Man, we got there early and they were playing those stupid slide shows. One was a still from the remake of The Producers and Emma said, "what show is that? that looks funny," and I said to her quietly, "it's The Producers, but if you want to see it that one isn't very good, we'll get the original from Netflix." The guy behind me overheard, and leaned over and said, "oh, my god, you're so right, the original was so much better." There was a mini-cascade of anti-remake sentiment across the theatre.

Fortunately we weren't there for Batman that time.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[Seriousity]

Nowhere near as bad as The Dollman vs. the Demonic Toys. A one-foot-tall man fighting against demon-possessed toys at a childrens toystore - at one point you can see the hand up the evil puppet. The best part is when he finds a one-foot-tall woman and makes love to her on a slice of bread.

Re:Legally, how?

[Punto]

Stop calling them toys -- they're my friends!

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[ArsonSmith]

Error $DEITY undefined.

I'm atheist you insensitive clod.

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[dgatwood]

Maybe I'm confused, but I thought the atheists defined it as an empty string, while the agnostics leave it in an undefined state.

oblig

[ipX]

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[genner]

Error $DEITY undefined.

I'm atheist you insensitive clod.

I thought atheists defined $DEITY as localhost.

Re:haha

[Hadlock]

Ahhh, actually, no.

It's old growth forests that go into books. No matter how much you replant, these trees aren't coming back in a hurry.

[citation needed]

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[DavidD_CA]

So then for polytheists, would that be an array?

451

[Mongoose Disciple]

I too will stick to my nice, PRINTED books, thank you very much!

Sure you will... until the firemen show up to BURN them!

Er... we're still on the dystopian fiction kick from the article summary, right?

Re:451

[Alcoholist]

Well, the thing is called a 'kindle'.

in newspeak

[Ralph Spoilsport]

On 17 07 2009, 12:57 PM, NYT column "Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others" thoughtcrime describes doubleplusgood Amazon goodthink protection of rightsholders interests in thoughtcrime prolefeed "1984" and "Animal Farm" by online rectify of Kindle Minitrue prolefeed device. Rightsholders have pubclear for said prolefeed, Amazon has noclear for publication. Amazon goodthink heroes send online rectify to all Kindle infected by thoughtcrime revs of 1984 and Animal Farm. Commendation from Minitrue to Amazon for goodthink online rectify. Increased chocolate supply and Victory Gin for all Amazon inner party execs and commendations to involved Amazon employees in online rectify solution.

All hail Big Brother.

RS