Don’t Buy a Kindle
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.
I particularly liked this comment.
My account was credited for a “returned” digital purpose, and the next time I opened the Kindle app on my Iphone, my copy of 1984 was being deleted. I emailed Amazon asking for an explanation, and their reply was “We recently discovered a problem with a Kindle book that you have purchased”. No further explanation.
The day before I had been re-reading 1984, and had just reached the episode where Winston is instructed to rewrite history by carefully editing past newspaper articles.
So helpful of Amazon to delete books that have “a problem”. Perhaps they can extend this helpful service to edit history books that have “a problem”.— Charles Slater