If you own a Kindle and purchased George Orwell’s Animal Farm or 1984, you already know that they’ve “gone missing” on your device. Apparently, in the dead of the night, Amazon sent out their electronic robots and deleted copies from the Kindle. They did refund the purchase price, but if you were in the middle of a chapter…too bad.
Now that the dust has had a chance to settle, it seems that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that didn’t have the rights to the material. The publisher, MobileReference, yanked the plug when they found out, which caused the electronic versions of the books to go poof! The scary part is that items you’ve purchased can suddenly go away without any notice.
That’s Big Brother in action. And what a delicious irony that it should happen to 1984 – we can hear Orwell chuckling.
- John and Mike
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