Amazon re-Kindles Orwell deal
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Amazon recently remotely deleted digital versions of George Orwell`s 1984 from Kindle `books`.
A company spokesperson was at the time quoted by the New York Times as saying the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that, did not have rights to them, using a self-service function, and, When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers` devices, and refunded customers.
Now Amazon has promised to, “redeliver the titles to their e-readers for free, along with any annotations users had made,” says the Associated Press, adding:
“Or the customers can get a $30 Amazon.com gift certificate or a $30 check — which could be worth much more than two Kindle books, because many of them cost $10 or less.
“Kindle owners who bought both ‘1984′ and ‘Animal Farm’ will be eligible for $60 if they don’t opt to have their books replaced.”
remotely deleted – Amazon censors Orwell`s 1984, July 20, 2009 New York Times Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle, July 17, 2009 Associated Press – Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles, September 4, 2009
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September 8th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Sorry.
Just knowing that not only do they remotely check what you read, but can delete it
whenever they feel you shouldn’t have it, is reason enough to never own a Kindle.
Been telling everyone that I know who is considering buying an e-reader.
Nice Job Amazon.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
So, let me get this straight… If you ordered both books, and got them taken away by amazon, they will give you two $30 gift cards equaling $60. The kindle books cost roughly $10? Anyone else do the math here? Just take the amazon gift cards buy the two books back, and profit $40
September 8th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Don’t buy a Kindle and don’t worry about random censorship at all.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Now that I think of it, George Orwell must be the anti-John Belushi. Belushi was in ‘1941′ and ‘Animal House’…
September 9th, 2009 at 5:43 am
No way will I ever buy a Kindle.
DRM is still DRM no matter how you look at it.
The phrase “defective by design” comes to mind here.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Now Amazon has promised to, âredeliver the titles to their e-readers for free, along with any annotations users had made,â…
How can they restore a users annotations unless they copied them to their own servers? Is this a breach of the users copyright (At least here in the UK where copyright is automatic) and / or privacy laws? What exactly would Amazon do with these annotations? Can they download any content they like from peoples Kindles whenever they want?? Does the user know about this ability?
I find this quite worrying!
September 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
hey guys !!!!!!!!!
amazon is more customer – centric company ……. it ll never take decisions to disturb customer privacy…. u must still consider the good fact that they r ready to send back d books fr free or full money replacement………it sows the importance they show to their customers.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Ohh NOOO, Amazon deleted my ebooks, what am I gonna dooooo!!!!????
Note-added spaces to links so they don’t work as seen, to prevent any “making available” lawsuit nonsense such as what happened to DVD Jon.
animal farm
http:// thepiratebay.org/ torrent/3388338/ george_orwell
1984
http://thepiratebay.org/ torrent/5050345/ George_Orwell_-_1984.pdf