Amazon Kindle and 1984

 

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Amazon pulled 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindle. Not just from the kindle store, but from individual kindles.

I generally oppose buying DRM-limited copies of media that I might want to use multiple times, such as books or music, because I'm worried that the DRM service will stop running and I'll lose access to the media. This has happened several times with music, where the site that verifies the DRM content gets taken down.

However, it never occurred to me that whatever service I purchased it from would reach into my device and delete it. I've been wrestling with the idea of buying a kindle for awhile now, mostly to try to reduce the number of physical books we have in the apartment -- or at least to keep it at the current seven bookcases level (which was quite difficult to achieve). But now -- no. Oh well, someday I'll find a reader I'm happy with.

Discussion in the forum gave this explanation from Amazon:

inset: The Kindle edition books Animal Farm by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) & Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) were removed from the Kindle store and are no longer available for purchase. When this occured, your purchases were automatically refunded. You can still locate the books in the Kindle store, but each has a status of not yet available. Although a rarity, publishers can decide to pull their content from the Kindle store.


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