July 17, 2009
Big Brother Is Watching
When I buy a book, I don't expect the seller to march into my house to take the book away when the publisher wants to remove it from circulation. But Amazon didn't have a problem deleting electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984, among other titles, from customers' Kindle book readers after the publisher got cold feet. Setting aside the epic irony of the story, this is exactly the kind of shenanigans that makes the average reader reluctant to buy e-books. Hell, it makes me reluctant. The only books I'll be purchasing from Amazon in the foreseeable future will be the paper kind.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at July 17, 2009 08:38 PM