<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c404793-8820-4900-9191-6857ce762c78/2971EEEF-5046-4F54-AEBA-A6D57C2EAF4B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.slate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/">Why 2024 Will Be Like <EM>Nineteen Eighty-Four</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.slate.com/img/42689227-B9DB-4EB7-851D-9DC981380751" alt="Jeff Bezos and a Kindle. Click image to expand." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/">Last week a few Kindle owners <A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_pg_newest?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx1QUP1NLUY4Q5M&displayType=tagsDetail">awoke to discover</A> that the company had <A target="_blank" href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/">reached into their devices</A> and remotely removed copies of George Orwell's <EM><A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A9JO9W?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002A9JO9W">Nineteen Eighty-Four</A> </EM>and <EM>Animal Farm</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/">It turns out that Orwell wasn't the first author to get flushed down the Kindle's <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole#Origins_of_term">memory hole</A>. In June, fans of Ayn Rand <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html">suffered the same fate</A>—Amazon removed <EM><A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525948929?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0525948929">Atlas Shrugged</A></EM>, <EM>The Fountainhead</EM>, and <EM>The Virtue of Selfishness</EM>, with <A target="_blank" href="http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=504507&postcount=19">an explanation</A> that it had "recently discovered a problem" with the titles</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/">The Orwell incident was too rich with irony to escape criticism, however. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501227">Amazon was forced to promise</A> that it will no longer delete its customers' books</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/">Don't put too much stock in that promise. 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