Idiots! Here Comes Book Burning
Posted in News, Rant, Technology on August 5th, 2009 by Dr. WarthanTags: Bad Idea, Book Burning, Corporate Evil, Dystopian, eBooks, End of the World, Future, Idiots, Kindle, OMG, Stupid, Thought Police
America’s entire science-fiction history in full of stories warning of a dystopian future where books are outlawed, art is destroyed, and the punishment for reading poetry is death. Who ever though that having “electronics books” was a good idea? Not me, and here’s the proof:
Talk about irony. In an Orwellian moment, owners of Amazon’s Kindle discovered that their recently purchased copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm had been deleted by Amazon. Apparently, a third-party retailer who specializes in selling public-domain books used Amazon’s self-service platform to sell copies of two Orwell titles. Unfortunately, those books aren’t public domain in the U.S.A. Read more »
