Re: Amazon remotely deletes 1984

Marion Gropen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Beth Young wrote:

> I wonder why Amazon designed the Kindles so that books could be  
> recalled.

People order books by accident (I've done it), and request a reversal  
and a refund. The only way to do that is to pull the book from their  
files.

NB: I didn't say Amazon did it right. Certainly they could have done  
it better.




Marion Gropen
Gropen Associates, Inc.
By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
www.GropenAssoc.com
Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog





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