{"id":10889,"date":"2009-09-04T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Amazoncom-to-Repent-for-Orwellian-Kindle-Deletions-with-30-GC"},"modified":"2009-09-04T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:54:23","slug":"amazoncom-repents-for-orwellian-kindle-deletions-with-30-gift-cert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10889","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Repents For Orwellian Kindle Deletions with $30 Gift Cert."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}