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Old 05-14-2009, 01:11 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
The easiest way to implement a "remote kill" is for Amazon to redownload the ebook with the TTS flag record included in the metadata. I have never heard of Amazon doing this, and I have heard of cases where an author updated an ebook and Amazon told them they could not push the corrected ebook to existing owners.
And even then if you have a backup of this "updated" ebook, you can disconnect and restore it via USB.

This makes little sense to me though I must admit the aaverage brain capacity of US corporations is so low nowadays - the "greed" area rules everything -that I can imagine any sort of idiotic step like this.
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