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From: Frode Hegland <frode@hyperwords.net>
Date: July 30, 2009 5:48:21 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: web: Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework
"It seems we have yet another reason to volley complaints in Amazon's directions. 17-year old high school Justin Gawronski had apparently been taking electronic notes and annotations on his Kindle for a summer assignment on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yeah, you can probably guess where this is going -- after the retailer remotely pulled the plug on that particular version of the book, Gawronski's notes were lost in the ethers, rendered useless. The suit, which is seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages for those affected by the deletion -- and if he asks nice, we're pretty sure Jeff would write his teacher a note." (30 July 2009)
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