[publican-list] Fwd: Re: reading our docs on the Kindle

[leecarlon at redhat.com]

----- "David Jorm" <djorm at redhat.com> wrote:

> "On July 17, 2009, Amazon.com withdrew certain Kindle titles, Animal
> Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, from sale, refunded
> the cost to those who had purchased them, and remotely deleted these
> titles from purchasers' devices after discovering that the publisher
> lacked rights to publish the titles in question."


If only they'd done that on April 1st it would have been fantastic.

Also, kinda cool if they did it after you'd finished reading the books.

(full disclosure - I love my kindle)


> 
> Source:
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/
> 
> Just sayin'...
>