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Originally Posted by solitarywolf
Through the discussion with Amazon I discovered that the book is no longer available from the publisher.
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That's true...
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Originally Posted by solitarywolf
Therefore it is probably been deleted off of the Amazon servers those strange Chinese looking characters mean the book has been deleted from their servers. I know that when you delete a file off your computer it does the same thing it puts a weird character in front of the word and thus ignores the file.
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... but the 'weird character' approach to deleting files hasn't been true since the days of DOS. I can guarantee that Amazon's servers are not using DOS filesystems! They're probably using ferociously complex alien-hypertechnology cloud filesystems that nobody of smaller scale than Amazon has any reason to use. None of these delete files by changing single characters: file deletion, and for that matter creation and changing, is a complex quorum negotiation between multiple systems. It's quite possible that a bug somewhere in there could mess up the filename, but there's no way this is intentional.
(Also, if publishers withdraw books, unless the book is actually a mass of copyright violations or something, Amazon don't as a rule withdraw it: existing purchasers need to be able to get the copies they purchased when they replace their Kindles, after all. Those copies aren't suddenly not purchased any more simply because the publisher isn't selling new copies of the book! They withdrew a book like that just once. It was a huge PR disaster and they swore never to do it again.)