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Monday 20 July 2009

More interesting, however, is another question: “Under what circumstances can Amazon not remove books from customers’ devices?” The answer to that one’s easy: don’t buy books from Amazon. If your e-books are in a generic format such as plain text, PDF or DOC file, they’re not tied into the control system and Amazon has no power to delete them. On the one hand, you have a locked-down, Kindle-only e-book that you never really own and which Amazon assures us it may delete. On the other hand, anyone can find unencrypted equivalents which can’t be remotely deleted, and which work on any competing device. The legitimate product has severe defects clearly not shared by pirated counterparts. Delete this book

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