Posted 07/17/09 at 07:02:13 PM by Pulkit Chandna

How much of every Kindle does Amazon own after it is sold? You may be a bit confounded by this question. But every Kindle owner, who downloaded either of George Orwell’s famous books Nineteen Eighty-four or Animal Farm, or both, must have that question on their mind. Amazon left Orwell-doting Kindle owners nonplussed after it remotely deleted the above-mentioned novels from their Kindles.

Although it has sent them a refund, such overbearing behavior on its part can not be brooked. Amazon is said to have acted at the publisher’s behest. Amazon labeled it a “rare” occurrence. The entire episode feels like a harbinger of worse things to follow to this author. Will digital distribution and cloud computing leave us with only nominal ownership rights in the future?

Edit: Update to the situation after the jump. 

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