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Old 03-19-2014, 09:19 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by rollei View Post
And in 2009 Amazon had to remotely delete 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/te...azon.html?_r=0
That was because those books are not in public domain in the US. The person selling them did not have the legal right to sell them in the US.
The OP mentioned they were available for free in countries where they are in public domain and thus should not be in danger of getting pulled from those libraries.
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