Amazon removed the eBooks because they were published illegally

July 18th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 778 times, 2 so far today















Amazon removed the eBooks because they were published illegally

Amazon has been getting a lot of bad press because of their recent action of remotely deleting some eBooks from Amazon Kindle eBook readers.

The details are however out now and the company cannot be blamed.

Earlier it looked like the publisher decided to no longer make available the said books in digital form.

The real reason is that the said publisher had no rights to make these two books available for sale at all (at least in the United States).

Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener said in a statement: “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers.”

The company further admitted: “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances.”

MobileReference is the company which made these books available for sale on the Amazon Kindle store. They have not issued any statement till now.

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They eBooks were not "published illegally", just illegal in the United States. "1984", like "Winne-the-Pooh", would now be in the Public Domain of the United States as well, except for the Copyright Term Extension Acts.

Disney nets a billion a year on Pooh, and gave a fraction of that to congressional lobbyists.

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