I was thinking about buying a Kindle. Now I think I will wait a while.
People who bought Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm for their Kindle were surprised to discover that it had disappeared from their devices overnight. It turns out the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic version, and Amazon caved into their demand to sneak into people’s electronic libraries and take back the book at the publisher’s request.
Makes me wonder what else they are digging into when that little device synchs up with the Amazon mothership.
i saw that, too. of course, i had never even thought about buying one, sugar! i’m old school, i still like to turn pages. xooxx
There’s also a suit against Amazon because the leather binding causes the case to crack!
http://business.theage.com.au/business/bookreader-gets-judged-on-cover-20090718-dozc.html
Fitting, though, that it would be Orwell’s work that dropped into the memory hole…
Isn’t it? Kinda Scary in a way.