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Think you own that kindle book?

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by admin in Web 2.0

Well think again, Amazon can come to your Kindle and take back any book it wants at any time. If I had known this I would have thought twice about buying one.

Via Digital Trends

In a Big Brother move, Amazon has deleted two George Orwell titles from Kindles in use, including, yes, 1984.

Writer George Orwell wrote about the overweening power of Big Brother in his prophetic novel, 1984, probably never dreaming how close to the truth he’d come.