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Gizmodo is reporting a really, really bad thing: Amazon has deleted digital books from customers' Kindles after they've already bought them. The kicker? The books were Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. (This irony is delicious! Where did you get it?) Gizmodo says the publisher "changed its mind" about having electronic versions, which we don't actually believe. We don't see Amazon bowing and scraping before publishers much, let alone offering to break into customers' devices for them to erase purchased products. Stay tuned for the full story--just maybe not on a Kindle.
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While I think Amazon deserves whatever scorn people want to heap on them, I think that the publisher who asked for this deserves (almost) equal ignominy: MobileReference, I'm looking at you. (Per this discussion: http://bit.ly/e6q3F )
Full props for the headline - nicely called out by CNet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289983-56.html
Hey, thanks for passing that along, bilco. I woulda missed it. Hah!
Six months ago bloggers (notably Stephanie at UrbZen) warned about this kind of thing.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/kindle-see-we-told-you-so/