Thread: Repeat of the "1984" deletion case?
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Old 12-30-2010, 07:55 PM   #15
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Pushka, I agree that "unpublishing" books is different (I've done it myself). Amazon/Publishers are in their rights to do so. This is not what happened here.

Amazon's Kindle "system" includes off-Kindle storage of the books you have purchased. This off-Kindle storage is supposed to be a permanent (at least for as long Amazon exists) storage of all the products that you have purchased. It is a huge advantage of the Kindle experience (that and its seamless connectivity with the Amazon store). For example, I recently lost my Kindle 3 and was able to restore all the books I purchased when I bought a new Kindle 3.

I argue that removing books from that storage is similar to removing books from your physical device. In this instance, the decision to remove was most likely made by Zondervan but the implementation (the actual deletion from Amazon servers) was probably done by Amazon.
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