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Publishers own their ISBNs, but it doesn't give them any right to delete books that I gratuitously used their ISBN on. The ONLY control they have is that I can't share, distribute or publish books that I put their ISBN on.
I think in the UK it comes under Computer Misuse / Hacking act if a company remotely removes books from your ereader you didn't licence off them*. They absolutely have no right to prevent personal private use of an ASIN. No-one can own a string of digits in that sense to prevent you using them in a personal database. That's a crazy idea.
[* It's a grey area even doing it with books you claim you licenced and didn't really sell, which is why they claimed after the 1984 deletion saga publicity that they would never do it again.]
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