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Amazon Kindle: big brother is watching, and deleting books

Amazon Kindle, you’re not having a great week. On the heels of my post regarding a class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon, last night every legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 and Animal Farm were remotely deleted from Kindles. Hear that? That would be me, beating my head on my desk. The publisher of the Orwell titles had... Read more »

By AmyGuth,
July 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

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