Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:46 UTC
Every now and then, these news items cross your path that simply don't need any words or imagery in order to make an impact. This is definitely one of those. You all know Amazon's Kindle, right? It's Amazon's successful e-book reader which allows you to buy a subset of Amazon's book catalogue in electronic form. Well, the term "buy" doesn't really apply here. Update: In a rare case of company mea culpa, Amazon has explained that deleting the books was a bad idea, and they assured us it won't happen again. The issue here was that the publisher behind the two Orwell books in the Kindle Store did not have the rights to sell these books, and after Amazon was informed by the rightsholder, they removed the books. Still, according to the NYT, more books were deleted from Kindles, even though Amazon doesn't have the right to do so according to its own TOS.
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In all likelihood Amazon hadn't obtained the appropriate permission to distribute the eBook versions of these titles, or the permission was incorrectly granted when another sole distribution agreement existed - thus creating a legal problem - so Amazon likely had to do something to correct the situation. This is the more logical conclusion.
But then again logical conclusions don't make for sensationalism do they Thom...
and what exactly makes the agreements some publishers have, more valid than the agreements some consumers have?