Kindle disappears Orwell
As with aliens reclaiming their humanoid lizard children, Amazon, with its tractor beams, can abduct your library right off the overpriced Kindle you mistakenly believed was yours.
In a case of life imitating art, Amazon has angered some customers of its Kindle electronic book service by remotely deleting two George Orwell books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.A licensing issue with the Orwell novels, apparently, but still, shit storms in the forecast for Amazon next week.
Copies of the novels, which feature dystopian worlds, were wiped from the book readers this week.
Many have compared the move to the workings of the totalitarian government in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which documents deemed inappropriate are dropped into a "memory hole" and erased forever.
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