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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. Re:Whatever The Party says by Techmeology · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Instead coming to get me, wget http://www.desy.de/gna/html/cc/Tutorial/tutorial.html and http://www.asiaing.com/animal-farm-by-george-orwell.html I'm no legal expert (I gave up on trying to understand the law), but these novels are impiratable since their copyright has expired (well, I think they have anyway). Even if they weren't if Amazon and publishers will do things like this, then they deserve all the piracy they wget!

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  2. Re:Whatever The Party says by Techmeology · · Score: 0, Redundant

    (the first link is meant to be http://www.planetebook.com/1984.asp)

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  3. Am I the only one? by SupremoMan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Am I the only one who finds the books in question ironic?

    *DUCKS FOR COVER*