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The first rumour was that Amazon had to retrieve the books after pressure from the rights-holder, which had apparently changed its mind about the e-vailability of these masterpieces of socialist theory versus practice. Amazon later denied this, explaining that the works uploaded by a publisher, reported to be MobileReference, which did not have the rights in the first place.
Customers have not been thrilled to discover that, when they purchase a book using Kindle, they do not necessarily own it for life. One wrote on Amazon.com's forum: "When I buy a book, I own it. Today i find that when I 'buy' a Kindle book, I am leasing it and it is subject to recall by the issuer". One particularly disgruntled customer is Justin Gawronski, who was reading 1984 on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and annotations when it simply vanished. "They didn't just take a book back, they stole my work", he is reported to have said.
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Right: No-one asked the piggy if it wanted to be Kindled ...
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