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Amazon Defines Irony After Deleting '1984'

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Jul 18, 2009 12:11 pm US/Pacific

Amazon Defines Irony After Deleting '1984'

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Amazon, the online book retailer, became the embodiment of the George Orwell book "1984," and irony, when the company remotely deleted every copy of the Orwell books "1984," and "Animal Farm," that existed on any Amazon Kindle.

"1984," is a novel best-known for the fear of a massive Big Brother like state that controls all aspects of society with almost unlimited power. Big Brother made use of phrases like "Ignorance is Strength," and "War is Peace," to help control the masses.

Amazon said the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that didn't have rights to them, which prompted the company to remove all of the books, even legally purchased ones.

"We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances," Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener told the New York Times.

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