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Amazon deleted the copy of "1984" that a high school student had annotated on his Kindle.

Now he is suing Amazon. The lawyer is seeking class action status.

The news story "Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework" by Geoffrey A. Fowler is in the Wall Street Journal blog "Digits".
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/30/lawsuit-amazon-ate-my-homework/