Amazon Sued Over Kindle Deletion of Orwell Books

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › August 05, 2009

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SEATTLE - A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.

Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for remotely removing copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices. The company did so after learning the electronic editions were pirated, and it gave buyers automatic refunds. But Amazon did it without prior notice.

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Amazon Sued Over Kindle Deletion of Orwell Books

The lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle on b...

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