Amazon, Why Don’t You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?
So plenty has already been said about this, but we’re going to weigh in too because it’s just so ridiculous. Amazon began remotely deleting books from Kindles this morning. Illegal books? Nope. Perfectly legal versions of George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm”, purchased through Amazon. Why? Well, apparently the publisher changed their minds about having digital versions of the books available for the Kindle, reports David Pogue . Okay, that’s up to them — from this point forward. But those who already paid for the books, own them. In a word, this is bullshit. Seriously, why doesn’t Amazon just come into our houses and burn the print copies as well while they’re at it? This remote deletion issue is an increasingly interesting one. Last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that the company has a remote “kill switch” to remove apps from your device if it thinks that is necessary. To the best of my knowledge, they have yet to use such functionality, and would only do so if there was a malicious app out there that was actually causing harm to iPhones. They have not even used it to kill some poor taste apps that were quickly removed from the App Store, like Baby Shaker . That sounds reasonable. What Amazon is doing, is not. Yes, they credit your account with …
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