Re: Amazon remotely deletes 1984

--- In [email protected], Marion Gropen <lists@...> wrote:
>
> I'd like to toss in some context here.
> 
> If you buy a physical item that's stolen, and the original owners or  
> the police track it down, you will be forced to return it, whether or  
> not you can get a refund from the seller.
> 
> Amazon made a mistake and allowed a publisher to upload an ebook to  
> which it didn't have the rights. (I suspect that the company was a new  
> one, and clueless, rather than malignant, but that's just a personal  
> bias.)
> 
> Then the error was revealed to them (not sure how, but I suspect that  
> the rightsholder protested), and Amazon acted in the way that they'd  
> be forced to do if the book were in print: they recalled it from  
> everyone that they could find to whom they had sold it.
> 
> Now, if it were a print book, the recall would affect bookstores, and  
> maybe libraries, but not individuals, because the tracking info would  
> be difficult, and the transaction costs would be too high (courts do  
> try to be a little reasonable on these things). But with an ebook,  
> they CAN recall from individuals, and therefore, they must.
> 
> This isn't a new thing, in principle, only in possibilities.
> 
> Still: it's a little unnerving.
> 
> 
> Marion Gropen
> Gropen Associates, Inc.
> By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
> www.GropenAssoc.com
> Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog
>
Marion, it is my understanding that one reader was working on a thesis on 1984.  It was handy to have an e-copy and annotate it.  The people at Amazon wiped out all his notes and the many hours of labor he spent on them.  This IS wrong, if true.

Rick Brooks



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