Who Took My Book? E-Book Readers Kindle Debate Over Digital Rights
23 07 2009Do we as consumers ever really own the digital stuff — books, music, etc. — that we think we’re buying?
It’s a provocative question explored in an article Thursday by the WSJ’s Geoffrey Fowler. The issue came up last week when Amazon.com reached into customers’ Kindle e-readers and deleted some e-books written — ironically — by George Orwell. Amazon, which returned the cost of the e-books, said it made the move when it realized that the publisher didn’t have the proper rights to sell the books in the U.S.
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