Re: Re: Amazon remotely deletes 1984

>
> > I was discussing this on another list, and my thoughts were that
> > Amazon and
> > the publisher
>
> The publisher didn't upload the copies, that's why they were yanked.
> (I'm not sure about this, but I THINK it was a pirate.)

No offense, but DUH. If you'd read what I wrote, you'd see that I was
talking about how they gave themselves black eyes over this, and yes...the
publisher DID. They didn't load it, but the choice to have Amazon take back
the copies is being blamed just as much on them as on Amazon. It didn't have
to go down that way, but it did.


> > They
> > would have paid a settlement and then a percentage of future books
> > made with
> > the tech to the family.
>
> Only if the complainants CHOSE to allow it. They would have paid
> regardless, but they wouldn't necessarily get to continue using it.

That was what the case ASKED for, according to the briefs I've read. Whether
they continued to use it or not, they couldn't demand back sold copies.

>
> Only for practical reasons.
>

Those same practical reasons apply to most e-book resellers. Again, read the
post, in whole. Amazon is one of the few that can do the yank back routine.
Most of them can remove something from the library shelf but cannot take
back what someone has already downloaded.

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