Thread: Kindle-- still proving why I made the right decision never buying one
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Old 10-01-2009, 06:08 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by JeremyZ View Post
I'm not aware of how it all played out in the end: Are those George Orwell books still unobtainable for Kindle? Or was the copyright issue worked out and folks can now re-purchase the books?
THOSE Orwell books are not available.

The $10 ones from Houghton Miffllin are.

They'd imported the Mobipocket.com feed from other countries (including the ones tagged "Australia only) into the Kindle store, without checking if it was legal for that publisher to sell the book in the US.

The deletions were in none of the categories listed in the article--
a) User consent,
b) user requests a refund/doesn't pay for book,
c) judicial order,
d) virus/bad code (and this would be "in a book purchased from Amazon.")

The Orwell books were deleted on the concept of "oops--we weren't supposed to sell you that."
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