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Amazon: We Won’t Delete Your Kindle Books Unless We Need to Delete Your Books

Peter Kafka in Media on October 1, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

It took several months–and a lawsuit–but Jeff Bezos and company are finally explaining when, and why, they’ll take away books you bought for your Kindle. Pretty reasonable, really.

Jeff Bezos Apologizes for Kindlegate, but Can’t Promise It Won’t Happen Again

Peter Kafka in Media on July 23, 2009 at 8:01 pm PT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t make it to his company’s earnings call today, but he did find time to apologize for Kindlegate–Amazon’s ham-fisted removal of George Orwell novels from his customers’ e-book readers. Great, right? Almost.

What Book Will Amazon Delete Next?

Peter Kafka in Media on July 21, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

Last week, Amazon acknowledged that it deleted some copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles. So what book will be next? Because while Amazon has said it won’t repeat what it did last week, it hasn’t actually sworn off remote book-removal–or remote-anything removal, for that matter–altogether. Does that worry you? It should.