1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

[Bryan O'Neal]

I fully understand why Amazon took this action, however I choose not to
allow it by not owning a kindle. In other words, you all may be screwed but
I never had a telascreen installed in my apartment ;)

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marco Savo<savomarco at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand what's the point, you can read for free on-line
> > http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
> > This copyright stuff is too messy for me to understand
> >
> > All animals are equal, But some animals are more equal than others.
> > Animal Farm, the three pigs "Lenin, Stalin, Trotzky"
>
> The copyright on "1984" and "Animal Farm" has expired in many
> countries but not yet in the USA.  The publisher who provided it to
> Amazon specializes in public domain books but evidently failed to
> catch that they were not authorized to publish in the USA.  Amazon
> missed it too.  The publisher requested that the book be removed from
> the Kindle store.  Amazon did so AND removed it from the Kindles and
> Kindle applications in iPhones and iPods of the people who purchased
> it.  Amazon now states that in the future they will just remove from
> the store and not devices.
>
> Copyright is messy.  Reading this comic book reveals and helps to
> understand better: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html
>
> Alan
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