Thread: "An Apology from Amazon"
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Old 07-23-2009, 04:02 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by purl4peace View Post
Found this over on the Kindle Thread -- just posted today:

Wonder if he has been reading this forum! I'm actually rather impressed.

Initial post: Jul 23, 2009 12:16 PM PDT
Jeffrey P. Bezos says:

This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our "solution" to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.

With deep apology to our customers,

Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO
Amazon.com
This is obviously sheer lunacy. They were entirely within their right to delete content they had sold and accepted money for, from the private storage of devices owned by their customers.

Perhaps somebody from the cool-headed crowd here at Mobileread.com can give this joker a clue. Is he new?!

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