Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984

levicivita writes "From the down-but-not-out NYT comes an article (warning: login may be required) about user backlash against Kindle's embedded DRM: 'Last week, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, offered an apparently heartfelt and anguished mea culpa to customers whose digital editions of George Orwell's "1984" were remotely deleted from their Kindle reading devices. Though copies of the books were sold by a bookseller that did not have legal rights to the novel, Mr. Bezos wrote on a company forum that Amazon's "'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles."' Bezos's post is here."

Comments

Re:It's still sketchy as hell

[Culture20]

"We apologise for the sacking of your books. Those responsible for sacking your books, have been sacked."

Then all instances of møøse will be replaced with llama. Are you prepared for that to happen to your bøøks?

Re:It's still sketchy as hell

[Camann]

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Re:Responsibility to customers

[LandDolphin]

"If they can manage my Kindle, they can see what I have stored on their."

on their what?