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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
This brought into mind the problem Amazon customers are having getting updated copies of books originally published with formatting flaws (LOTR for example). Amazon states they back up all your purchased books on their servers. I always assumed they would simply have a file of links to book titles per customer, perhaps with customer notes, etc. linked to the PID of their Kindle. Apparently Amazon stores the entire book per customer - since customers that deleted the faulty copy and redownloaded the title still got the same flawed copy. So in this context, you really do "own" the book - or at least are irretrievably linked to one version of it linked to your account.
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I don't think that's a universal issue. When I purchased and downloaded "The Hobbit" on my K1, it had the typo in the title "Tha Hobbit". By the time I re-downloaded it into my K2, the title was corrected (so I now have both versions). I'm sure they got so many complaints about that title and it was such and easy fix, that they corrected it for everyone.
I have also complained about formatting issues and Amazon has had me delete the book and download a corrected version. Maybe it requires making Amazon know that you want a corrected version.