Amazon settles lawsuit over remote deletion of ‘1984′
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Amazon has settled the lawsuit brought against it by a high school student, who claimed his Kindle's notes on the book 1984 vanished along with the book when Amazon remotely deleted copies of it on all Kindles. As part of the $150,000 settlement, Amazon has agreed it "will not remotely delete or modify" any works on Kindles, with a few exceptions.
Amazon's decision to delete George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, allegedly for copyright reasons, set off immediate uproar from Kindle owners. The online retailer was quick to backpedal from the move, but still found itself in court over the question of ownership of digital books on Kindles. By settling now, Amazon has possibly averted a much larger class action suit.
Amazon makes up for the Kindle’s deletion of 1984
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Amazon has announced that it is going to make up for the deletion of the book 1984 from Kindle devices by either giving buyers the book back with their annotations, or giving them a $30 check or gift card. The book had been deleted for copyright reasons, which started an enormous controversy and even caused a lawsuit over lost annotations.