Do you perhaps have a link about the story of amazon removing the 1984 book on all kindles? It sounds very interesting, partly because it seems so absurd.
Here's a writeup [1]. A third party started selling kindle editions of 1984 and Animal Farm through Amazon despite not having any rights to do so. When they found out (presumably the rights holders complained), Amazon deleted the unauthorized editions.
That story is about a lawsuit from one of the people they took it from.
Amazon sold 1984 on the Kindle store without permission, and when they realized their error they deleted it from everyone's kindle and refunded their money.
That's really something entirely different than malware. You know that Amazon books on kindle are subject to that. It's not malware on the Kindle, it's their whole schtick.
That's really something entirely different than malware. You know that Amazon books on kindle are subject to that. It's not malware on the Kindle, it's their whole schtick.
At the time it was suspected, but unknown. I remember the outrage, I'm not sure If I was lurking on here before I made an account, or I read it on slashdot or digg or something. Here are the HN comments from the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=710506
> You know that Amazon books on kindle are subject to that.
Most people don't. And the few that do only know because of this scandal.
There's something profoundly unintuitive about it. When you buy 5$ a book in the bookstore, you can't wake up some day with the door open, 5$ on your table and the book gone from your library.
[1] https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...