July 27, 2009

Orwell disappeared

I wrote this post a few days ago, but I couldn’t not post it, so here it is:

 

 

 

When books vanish, people tend to get agitated, or is it just some post-Modern paranoid reaction?  But when certain Amazon Kindle e-book titles just disappeared, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos moved fast:

 

[He] has issued an apology to Kindle customers after "1984" and other books by British novelist George Orwell were remotely deleted from their electronic readers.

 

"This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of '1984' and other novels on Kindle," the Amazon chief executive said in a post on Thursday on the Kindle Community discussion forum.

 

Okay, it was an unfortunate accident. Accidents happen.  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos even stated, "Our 'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, [emphasis added] and painfully out of line with our principles…” He apologized, and I suspect that this will probably never happen again. 

 

But, it still happened.  Somewhere there is some object lesson buried here.  Don’t you think?

 

This is the 21st century; books aren’t burned.  They just go away, being “remotely deleted,” that is.

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