Want to be gobsmacked by a wicked irony? Open up your US-spec Amazon Kindle and look for your copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 that you paid Amazon for and downloaded to your fancy little e-reader gizmo.Whoops! Can't find 'em. Nope. That's because Amazon has electronically entered your home via your Kindle and deleted the books that you bought and paid for. Yup. Down Orwell's memory hole. Amazon had some snafu with their electronic book supplier - who apparently did not have the rights to Orwell's stuff in the US.
I'd bet that most people who own an Amazon Kindle do not know that Amazon can do this. And without a warrant no less. While Amazon has credited its customers' accounts, it all just seems so - dare I say it - Orwellian. What's next? The RIAA entering people's home to search for MP3s?
By the way, presumably from a different publisher, Amazon still carries 1984 for the Kindle here. But Animal Farm is "Not Yet Available".
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