Remember the student who sued Amazon.com after it deleted his annotated copy of George Orwell’s 1984 from his Kindle? Amazon subsequently offered to re-deliver the e-books to users’ Kindles with any notes,, or in the alternative, provide them with a $30 coupon to be used for futher purchases, but the lawsuit filed by Justin Gawronski…
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Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Rachel Metz of Associated Press reports that Amazon.com is offering free replacement books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. The deletion led to a class-action lawsuit started by one student who was using the book for…
Amazon’s Bezos: deleting Orwell books was ‘stupid’
Amazon.com was widely criticized last week for deleting electronic copies of George Orwell’s novels from its customers’ Kindle readers after it discovered that it had inadvertently sold unauthorized editions of the books. On Thursday, Amazon’s chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, posted a statement on a customer forum, publicly apologizing for his company’s handling of the…
Amazon Kindles a debate
On Friday, The New York Times reported that Amazon had remotely deleted some digital editions of books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them. Ironically, the books were George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. Amazon’s explanation was that the company that had provided the books didn’t have the rights to the books:…