Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices

Courtesy NYT > Business  Fri, 07/17/2009 - 18:51

An Amazon spokesman said that “1984” and “Animal Farm” were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.


 

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