Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Orwellian?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_12-2009_07_18.shtml#1247864701
I'm a big fan of the Amazon Kindle, and think that electronic book
readers are the future. But behavior such as that described on
[1]David Pogue's New York Times blog can do much to alienate
prospective readers:
This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover
that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared
from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought
and paid for -- thought they owned.
But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an
electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and
dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all
books by this author from people�s Kindles and credited their
accounts for the price....
You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony?
The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none
other than George Orwell. And the books were �1984� and �Animal
Farm.� ...
Thanks to Kevin Gerson of the UCLA Law Library for the pointer.
References
1.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/
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