Sentences with phrase «kindle user purchases»
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In an Orwellian moment, Amazon remotely deleted Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of users who had purchased digital copies of the books.
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In an infamous 2009 incident Amazon erased copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles when it turned out that the particular edition users had purchased was being sold by a publisher that didn't happen to have the rights to sell it.
One of such issues is that the users are sometimes not able to purchase content on kindle.
Its important that Amazon allows its kindle users to back up their purchases with their computers not only on their servers, this incident really leaves a bad taste of them.
The 3G model will be worth it for some, if travel purchasing or lack of local WiFi signal is a concern, but unlike the previous Kindles this will not allow users to browse anything besides the Kindle Store and Wikipedia so some of the value is removed.
But, Amazon has promoted the «Buy Once, Read Anywhere» tagline, as it lets users read e-books purchased from the Kindle Store on Kindles, Macs, PCs, smartphones, Android, and Apple iOS devices.