1984Amazon.com Inc said it would replace copies of digital books that it purposefully deleted from its customers’ electronic readers this summer, as the online retailer sought to make amends for the controversial incident.

In July, Amazon acknowledged that it had deleted the Orwell e-books from the Kindles of an undisclosed number of owners. Amazon said it deleted the books because it learned an outside company had added the books to Amazon’s catalog but the outside company did not have the rights to sell them. Read the rest of this entry »

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