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Originally Posted by shorttimer1
I recently read that Amazon made a statement that they would NOT delete ANY books on anybody's Kindle in the future. I think this decision was from the fallout of the deleted George Orwell books.
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The Harry Potter mess was after the Orwell mess. An email was sent to the people who had bought the Harry Potter books asking the buyers for permission to remove the books. I believe that the folks who had bought them were given a gift certificate to purchase another book in its stead. At the very least they were refunded their money.
People who said they wanted to keep the books were aboe to do so.
Most folks returned the books willingly because the formatting was awful.
This is based on my memory of the event and posts made at Kindle Boards about the books. They were put up for sale through the publish your own work option and were disgustingly cheap, which was a huge tip off that they were not legit. That didn't stop people from downloading them like mad.