Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm 645
Oracle Goddess writes "In a story just dripping with irony, Amazon Kindle owners awoke this morning to discover that 1984 and Animal Farm had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for, and thought they owned. 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 George Orwell from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. Amazon customer service may or may not have responded to queries by stating, 'We've always been at war with Eastasia.'"
Whatever The Party says (Score:5, Funny)
For your convenience (Score:5, Funny)
The Kindle is now equipped with a memory hole.
Re:haha (Score:5, Funny)
If by "support" you mean "dismember and ground up," then yes.
Not Big Brother. (Score:4, Funny)
Big Amazon.
for those of you old enough to have seen the schlock sci-fi "rollerball" it's central theme was that big brotherism actually is more likely to be durable under corporate control rather than government control. A kind of facism where the role of the state is secondary.
I think it was big oil in rollerball. but it could have been big amazon.
plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.
Re:Legally, how? (Score:3, Funny)
Stop calling them toys -- they're my friends!
Re:Stay away from the Kindle! (Score:5, Funny)
Error $DEITY undefined.
I'm atheist you insensitive clod.
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Futurama reference: "Death by snoo snoo."
Re:Stay away from the Kindle! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe I'm confused, but I thought the atheists defined it as an empty string, while the agnostics leave it in an undefined state.
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:5, Funny)
oblig (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:3, Funny)
"A little lower and a lot softer" - Zapp Brannigan
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:5, Funny)
I heard a rumour once that there was a remake of Rollerball, but fortunately I was mistaken.
Along with other classic films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ocean's Eleven, Psycho, The Shining, Death Race 2000 and even the Thunderbirds, I am happy to say that there was never a remake of Rollerball.
La la la la la...
Re:Stay away from the Kindle! (Score:5, Funny)
Error $DEITY undefined.
I'm atheist you insensitive clod.
I thought atheists defined $DEITY as localhost.
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:haha (Score:3, Funny)
[citation needed] [xkcd.com]
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:4, Funny)
La la la la la...
When I took my daughter to see Iron Man, we got there early and they were playing those stupid slide shows. One was a still from the remake of The Producers and Emma said, "what show is that? that looks funny," and I said to her quietly, "it's The Producers, but if you want to see it that one isn't very good, we'll get the original from Netflix." The guy behind me overheard, and leaned over and said, "oh, my god, you're so right, the original was so much better." There was a mini-cascade of anti-remake sentiment across the theatre.
Fortunately we weren't there for Batman that time.
Re:Stay away from the Kindle! (Score:5, Funny)
So then for polytheists, would that be an array?
451 (Score:4, Funny)
I too will stick to my nice, PRINTED books, thank you very much!
Sure you will... until the firemen show up to BURN them!
Er... we're still on the dystopian fiction kick from the article summary, right?
in newspeak (Score:5, Funny)
All hail Big Brother.
RS
Re:Not Big Brother. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:451 (Score:3, Funny)
Well, the thing is called a 'kindle'.