{"id":11948,"date":"2009-07-18T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2009-07-18T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T16:02:50","slug":"ironia-della-sorte-la-strage-digitale-dei-libri-di-orwell-su-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/ironia-della-sorte-la-strage-digitale-dei-libri-di-orwell-su-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironia della sorte: la strage digitale dei libri di Orwell su Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via David Pogue<\/a><\/p>\n

\"1984\"This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for\u2014thought they owned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A screen shot from Amazon.com<\/span> The MobileReference edition of the novel, \u201cNineteen Eighty-four,\u201d by George Orwell that was deleted from Kindle e-book readers by Amazon.com.<\/span><\/div>\n

But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people\u2019s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price.<\/p>\n

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This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is \u201crare,\u201d but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we\u2019ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we\u2019ve learned that they\u2019re not really like books, in that once we\u2019re finished reading them, we can\u2019t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.<\/p>\n

As one of my readers noted, it\u2019s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we\u2019ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table.<\/p>\n

You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony? The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none other than George Orwell. And the books were \u201c1984\u201d and \u201cAnimal Farm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

La notizia sul NYT<\/p>\n

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In a move that angered customers<\/a> and generated waves of online pique, Amazon<\/a> remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle<\/a> devices of readers who had bought them.<\/p>\n

An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. \u201cWhen we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers\u2019 devices, and refunded customers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. \u201cWe are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers\u2019 devices in these circumstances,\u201d Mr. Herdener said.<\/p>\n

Customers whose books were deleted indicated that MobileReference, a digital publisher, had sold them. An e-mail message to SoundTells, the company that owns MobileReference, was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

Digital books bought for the Kindle are sent to it over a wireless network. Amazon can also use that network to synchronize electronic books between devices \u2014 and apparently to make them vanish.<\/p>\n

An authorized digital edition of \u201c1984\u201d from its American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was still available on the Kindle store Friday night, but there was no such version of \u201cAnimal Farm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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