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[OT] Orwellian ebooks sales

George R [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, July 18, 2009
14 years ago2,973 views

Ina Fried reports at CNET that Amazon has revoked from some Kindles previously purchased ebooks. Is this a form of rewriting history like in "1984"? Guess which books were revoked. They were "1984" and "Animal Farm", both by George Orwell.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289983-56.html

newspeak dictionary: http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html

Orwell's copyrights: http://patterico.com/2006/08/29/the-illegal-link-orwells-copyright-police-state-reloaded

Marcin Sochacki (Wanted) [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

[moved from "Amazon remotely removes Orwell's books from Kindles"]

http://gizmodo.com/5317180/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-1984-and-animal-farm-from-thousands-of-kindles

In an incredible twist it happened to be the famous books by Orwell, a real Big Brother style. If that doesn't show how scary DRM is, then I don't know what does.

George R [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Brad Stone is reporting in The New York Times that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, apologized on a Kindle forum for the remote deletion of "1984" and other books.

apology: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx1FXQPSF67X1IU&displayType=tagsDetail

NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/technology/companies/27amazon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Sure he apologized, but he didn't say what Amazon would do differently next time.

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