Comments on The Great Orwell Kindle Caper
Pulling content from the Kindle store breaks the Whispernet archive availability and sync services that allow the ebook to stay on customers’ Kindles. If they archived it at home, they still have the book – so this file removal only effects people who kept their ebook library in the cloud (and by extension, the Kindle’s Whispernet).
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Caffeine Queen says:
Here's the response from Amazon CS:
“The Kindle edition books Animal Farm by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) & Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) were removed from the Kindle store and are no longer available for purchase. When this occured, your purchases were automatically refunded. You can still locate the books in the Kindle store, but each has a status of not yet available. Although a rarity, publishers can decide to pull their content from the Kindle store. “
Bryan L. Wheeler says:
Actually, if you want to ensure that you are able to keep ALL copies of your Kindle books, make sure to ALWAYS download copies of your Kindle book purchases to your computer. That way, even if Amazon removes a book from your Kindle at any point that you have Whispernet on, you can reload that book onto your Kindle via the copy from your computer. Now, if it's a pirated book that should never have been sold in the first place, that's up to your own good conscientious as to what you should do. :)
Bryan L. Wheeler says:
That's correct flipoid - "the more logical solution would be to allow people who have paid for a book to keep it (if it was initially a legal, publisher- or author-released copy)", hence my comment. If you paid for a legal copy, you have every right to keep it, at least in my opinion, so rebel against the man, or the Whispernet anyway, and don't let them take your books away in the middle of the night like this.
In all honesty though, Amazon really shouldn't be refunding your money and taking your books away unless they are pirated copies put on Amazon illegally, and that's what most likely happened in this case. If this isn't the case, then I would have a serious issue with what they did, and NO, I would not delete a paid for book off my pc, regardless of whether or not Amazon refunded my money. If I bought it legally, I'm not deleting it just because Amazon refunded my money for some unknown reason that had nothing to do with pirating.
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Caffeine Queen says:
Here's the response from Amazon CS:
“The Kindle edition books Animal Farm by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) & Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Published by MobileReference (mobi) were removed from the Kindle store and are no longer available for purchase. When this occured, your purchases were automatically refunded. You can still locate the books in the Kindle store, but each has a status of not yet available. Although a rarity, publishers can decide to pull their content from the Kindle store. “
Bryan L. Wheeler says:
Actually, if you want to ensure that you are able to keep ALL copies of your Kindle books, make sure to ALWAYS download copies of your Kindle book purchases to your computer. That way, even if Amazon removes a book from your Kindle at any point that you have Whispernet on, you can reload that book onto your Kindle via the copy from your computer. Now, if it's a pirated book that should never have been sold in the first place, that's up to your own good conscientious as to what you should do. :)
Bryan L. Wheeler says:
That's correct flipoid - "the more logical solution would be to allow people who have paid for a book to keep it (if it was initially a legal, publisher- or author-released copy)", hence my comment. If you paid for a legal copy, you have every right to keep it, at least in my opinion, so rebel against the man, or the Whispernet anyway, and don't let them take your books away in the middle of the night like this.
In all honesty though, Amazon really shouldn't be refunding your money and taking your books away unless they are pirated copies put on Amazon illegally, and that's what most likely happened in this case. If this isn't the case, then I would have a serious issue with what they did, and NO, I would not delete a paid for book off my pc, regardless of whether or not Amazon refunded my money. If I bought it legally, I'm not deleting it just because Amazon refunded my money for some unknown reason that had nothing to do with pirating.
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