Kindle owners who had purchased copies of 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell had their copies digitally removed from their devices by Amazon recently. The legally bought editions were deleted from the accounts and the Kindles of purchasers. Accounts were credited back the purchase price.
The company selling digital copies of the books hadn't secured the proper rights to sell them, making this a scary scenario for any consumers who like to pretend that they actually own their digital copies of anything.
And it's rather ironic Orwell's 1984 should be one of the novels 'taken back' [for the sake of a phrase], given one of its main themes is censorship and the control of information. The moral in this story? Never buy a Kindle.
If you want to read 1984 or any other book, buy the real thing, since Amazon are unlikely to break in to your house and steal it back from you.
Are they?
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