This Week's Life Imitates Art Segment

[furrbear]

From The Register:

Amazon vanishes 1984 from citizen Kindles

Orwellian moment

In an irony-filled moment that underlines the flaws of our increasingly digital society, Amazon has removed George Orwell's 1984 from America's Kindle ebook readers.

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Bootnote

Could the fates have picked a more appropriate title to demonstrate the foibles of Amazon's model? Well, they might have chosen Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. After all, Amazon does call its ebook reader the Kindle. ®

Copyright SNAFU.

Comments

[winstonthriller.livejournal.com]

Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[eisenundblut.livejournal.com]

No, sir! You are incorrect. Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. You must be a Discipline of Goldstein. *suspicious look*

[gordreece.livejournal.com]

Is this a for real thing, or another software failing like the whole gay titles bullshit a while back?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Clickez zeh link and read the story. To its credit, Amazon issued refunds, but they (once again?) had difficulty getting the story straight.

[hwynym.livejournal.com]

I've been suspicious of the Kindle-type mode of distributing literature. This just reinforces it. If they can pull the entire book, what's to stop them from making changes to literature already on your Kindle?

Call me paranoid, but when I buy a real book, *I* control it, not some corporate hack.