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A U.S. high school student whose copy of 1984 was remotely deleted from his Kindle is suing Amazon, claiming that the action had "rendered useless" the notes he'd been taking on the book.
Earlier this month, readers who bought copies of George Orwell's 1984 for their Kindle e-readers awoke to find that they no longer owned the book.
Amazon had discovered that it did not really have the rights to sell the book and so, without notice, unilaterally deleted the volume from all Kindles.
The company credited the purchasers' accounts for the book, but that didn't quell the uproar from readers who'd assumed that once they bought a book, it was theirs.
Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos issued an apology, but that wasn't enough for Justin Gawronski, 17, of Michigan.
Gawronski was midway through his summer reading project, he says, when he lost the book; worse, the notes he'd taken so far wouldn't have the correct page numbers for any other edition he bought.
In conjunction with another customer, Gawronski filed suit in U.S. District Court in Seattle seeking damages plus a court order forbidding Amazon from ever doing it again.
The two readers are attempting to gain class action status for their suit.
David Bass
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