21 July 2009

Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm' Deleted From Kindles

"Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George Orwell works they had purchased, including '1984' and 'Animal Farm,' had been removed from their Kindle and their money refunded. It was conspiracy time on the Internet. Big Brother's revenge? Pressure from the publisher? No, says an Amazon spokesman — the deletion of pirated copies that had been posted to the Kindle store."

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