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1984 and the Kindle

Via io9: in a stunning fit of irony, Amazon secretly deleted all copies of 1984 from all Kindles.

An uproar followed, with outraged customers pointing out the irony that Amazon was deleting copies of a novel about a fascist media state that constantly alters history by changing digital records of what has happened.