Amazon Shows Need for Open eBook Standards

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sun, 07/19/2009 - 17:20

Last week Amazon did something despicable. They violated the privacy of every Kindle user when without warning they remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle Readers.

It seems that Amazon had determined these books had been purchased "illegally." (The irony of choosing these particular books goes without saying.) This set off a firestorm of protest and criticism aimed directly at Amazon and raised some very serious questions about electronic books (and electronic content) in general....

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