Amazon.com, which took the Orwellian step of remotely deleting copies of “1984” and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles, has apologized. On Thursday, they announced a sort of “reparations program” for those customers. In an email sent to “former owners” of the e-books, Amazon.com offered to either return the deleted books to effected Kindles, or to give owners a $30 Amazon gift certificate. It’s unclear if this was prompted by the lawsuit over the deletions. The lawsuit was filed by a student who said that