Amazon, Why Don’t You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?
July 17, 2009 at 17:09 PM EDT
So plenty has already been said about this, but we're going to weigh in too because it's just so ridiculous. Amazon began remotely deleting books from Kindles this morning. Illegal books? Nope. Perfectly legal versions of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm", purchased through Amazon. Why? Well, apparently the publisher changed their minds about having digital versions of the books available for the Kindle, reports David Pogue . Okay, that's up to them — from this point forward. But those who already paid for the books, own them. In a word, this is bullshit. Seriously, why doesn't Amazon just come into our houses and burn the print copies as well while they're at it?