Did the 1984 Kindle Debacle Make You Reconsider eBooks?
Geek Sugar Jul 20 09
The Kindle suffered its biggest debacle yet at the end of last week when it was discovered that the publisher of George Owell's Animal Farm and 1984 did not own the rights to the books - and Amazon complied by not only removing the books from the Kindle store, but by also remotely deleting the already-downloaded eBooks from Kindles. Woopsies!
The gaffe provoked a lot of outrage and questions - and it ascertained that electronic media is never actually yours. All this time I've been championing the Kindle (remember to enter our Kindle giveaway!), but I can't help but wonder if this will happen again. Full story...
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