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On Amazon, Orwell, and Digital Media

By Glenn Fleishman July 24, 2009


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I was  on KUOW on Wednesday
discussing the implications of media you don't own and Amazon's decision to delete unlicensed copies of George Orwell books it had sold to Kindle customers.

Yesterday, CEO Jeff Bezos apologized pithily and profusely for how Amazon handled the Orwell works and vowed his firm would be smarter, kinder, and more gentle in the future.
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