*Holy mackerel! Orwell himself never made remotely that sum from that book.
–Amazon.com Agrees to Pay US $150,000 to Settle Kindle eBook Removal Lawsuit
(October 1 & 2, 2009)
Amazon.com has agreed to a settlement that would have the company pay
US $150,000 to a Michigan high school student who sued the company after
his copy of 1984 was deleted from his Kindle reading device without
notice. In June of this year, Amazon deleted copies of 1984 and Animal
Farm from users' devices after learning that the entity that had made
the e-books available did not have proper authorization to do so.
Justin D. Gawronski sued Amazon, in part because when the file was
deleted from his Kindle, he lost annotations he had been making as part
of his summer homework for an Advanced Placement class. The settlement
also mandates that Amazon will not delete e-book files from users'
Kindles unless the user agrees, the user seeks a refund or the payment
does not clear, a court orders that the file be deleted, or the deletion
is deemed necessary to protect users from malware. In September, Amazon
offered to return the books to customers' Kindles along with any
annotations that had been made or give them credit at Amazon.com or a
check.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220300915
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33130484/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
(Via SANS)
