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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2008-07-15
Hmm, I bet you wouldn't be this blase about DRM and the like if you were hit by it. Do you support this kind of action, seriously? Do you think it's ok for a company to take away your ability to view what you've purchased at any time of their choosing, refund or not? Understa,d the consumer doesn't know or care about Amazon's licenses. What they know is they bought it, now they don't have it, because Amazon can manipulate your kindle with your files at any time. Do you fail to realize what this represents, or do you simply fail to see past the immediate situation?