This is exactly right but the Bible was NOT deleted from the Kindle. It wasn't on my Kindle but WAS on my old one and my Phone. I simply was not allowed to download the old one at all. NO e-mail. NO nothing. The Kindle just dumped me back to the Archived Items list which it was still on.
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Originally Posted by osnova
I disagree. It's not an updated Kindle version due to some technical issue or typos (I update my publications all the time because of those). It's a completely different revised edition of the Bible. They chose to call it the same name NIV; however, it's a "new" revision of the translation. The one they deleted was 1984 NIV (Orwellian parallel?). The new one is 2010/11 NIV. Because of the wild success of 1984 NIV, Zondervan wants to position 2010/11 NIV as a complete replacement of 1984 NIV and 2005 TNIV (people and churches that are NIV-"based" would have to upgrade).
However, for various reasons some folks would like to keep the 1984 edition (to compare between the two, the "tradition" of using the 1984 text, because they disagree with the revisions, for historical reasons, etc.). An analogy would be if Lockman Foundation deleted people's 1977 NASB and replaced it with 1995 NASB. In the realm of Bible translations, these things are very important. |