Back in July, Amazon caused quite an uproar when owners of its popular Kindle e-reader discovered that their copies of the George Orwell classics “Nineteen Eighty Four” and Animal Farm had disappeared. Amazon’s explanation was that they had discovered that the publisher offering the books for sale had no right to do so, meaning the more »

Oh, Amazon. What in the world is going on in the Kindle-world as of late? First you are being the target of a class action lawsuit due to your “protective case” cracking it, and now this?

It seems that Amazon caved to the pressure of a publisher, who decided that they no longer wanted their books available electronically. So, what does Amazon do? They remove them from their store, and remotely deletes them from the Kindles of anyone who had already bought a copy. Thousands of customers already plunked down their money, legitimately paid for the e-books, and poof they are gone. But, on the plus side, Amazon did credit their account back.