Amazon Deletes Two Books from Users' Kindle Devices

In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books "1984" and "Animal Farm" from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them. An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.

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