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I was just wondering if any MobileRead members had first-hand experience with this happening. Apparently not, or at least nobody has that is willing to share his/her experience.
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The story has gone viral, but a couple of the authors are replying to comments on some blog formats, and one or two of the customers who had them disappear from the archive and talked to customer service are commenting. BUT, I was reading comments elsewhere, before getting back to this post, so I'm not sure which link it's on.
Here's a good link, author is there and still commenting (warning over 200 comments). Joe Konrath has Selena repeat the original post to a wider audience this morning, but the comments give a lot more detail. Also links into the Amazon thread.
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/1...lena-kitt.html
Ars technica has actually gotten a reply from Amazon.
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/20...ed-fiction.ars
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Update: An Amazon spokesperson has responded to our query by saying that the books violated Amazon's content guidelines. As for the books being deleted from users' Kindles: "Due to a technical issue, for a short window of time three books were temporarily unavailable for re-download by customers who had previously purchased them. When this was brought to our attention, we fixed the problem and those books were once again made available for re-download. We apologize for the inconvenience."
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Those books that were "temporarily unavailable for re-download" turn out to be the same books that were removed .