Big Brother is watching
“Big Brother is watching,” says George Orwell’s character Winston Smith, a civil servant in a totalitarian society in the novel “1984.”The line is one of Orwell’s most infamous; and it couldn’t have held more true when Amazon unknowingly swiped “1984” and another of Orwell’s famous novels, Animal Farm, from their Kindle electronic book collections overnight.
The Kindle is Amazon’s invention, considered a software and hardware program for reading electronic books and other digital media.
Amazon claimed a rightful apology, stating “These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books,” in press releases after the fact.
But why then, in an odd parallel considered an “Orwellian Twist,” had Amazon removed the books with a secret notion?
One day, patrons owned the books, and the next they were replaced by an email announcing a refund without any real explanation.
Amazon simply sent out the same email they would to a buyer who had initiated a refund.
