Re: Amazon remotely deletes 1984

Thanks, Marion--this rationale makes sense.
I do think that Amazon could give "accidental purchase" buyers a refund,
remove the book from their online bookshelves, and just trust the readers to
delete the downloaded copy. If the reader makes a habit of ordering the
wrong book, Amazon could stop giving refunds to that person.  No need to
tamper with downloaded copies.  But I can see why Amazon, and perhaps
readers, would like this feature.
Slate magazine has a very interesting article on this topic:
http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/

The author points out that Amazon has recalled copies before, and that other
content providers have tampered / are tampering with downloaded content.
 It's a very interesting article, if a little unsettling.

Beth

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Marion Gropen <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Beth Young wrote:
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> > 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.
>
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>
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> Marion Gropen
> Gropen Associates, Inc.
> By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
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> Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog
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