Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'

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Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'

Amazon has fended off accusations of Big Brother-like behaviour after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers last week.

 

[LazyLion]

Welcome to 1984!

I would love to have a device like the kindle but that kind of control scares me.

DRM = FAIL

mobireader FTW!!!!

 

[Budza]

Probably because if read, the yanks would start to wonder about the direction theur country is going... Govt. directive?

 

[Aeron]

And the world will watch as its freedom is taken away.

 

[d0b33]

Irony overkill.

 

[JohnsonCT]

Life imitating art!

 

[Master Cain]

George Orwell is not politically correct.
Probably to close to the truth for comfort.

 

[MoHaG]

Random note: AFAIK The books are out of copyright in quite a few countries, including South-Africa...

 

[d0b33]

Random note: AFAIK The books are out of copyright in quite a few countries, including South-Africa...

Yep, download them for free from project Gutenberg or other book sites.

 

[noxibox]

A good reason to avoid the overpriced Kindle.

 

[Kosmik]

A good reason to avoid the overpriced Kindle.

Hmm I'm considering the new Tablet flip style netbook as a nice portable reader.