"I have not heard anything from Amazon about this, except that I got a very strange phone earlier from someone with a hidden number," Nygaard told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. That move was reversed (Google Translate) about 24 hours later, with access to her Kindle account restored. This week, Amazon suddenly disabled her account, taking away her access to an e-book library of 40 books.
She bought a Kindle in the United Kingdom, took it home to Norway, and bought UK e-books on the Kindle. This week’s case involves a Norwegian woman (Google Translate) named Linn Nygaard. (The company did it before, ironically, with George Orwell’s 1984, back in 2009.) Over the past week, the tech world has been abuzz with news that-surprise, surprise-Amazon can remotely wipe any Kindle, at any time, for effectively any reason. Yes, many parts of the Internet have known about this technique for some time now, but we feel that it bears mentioning again here. And I only connect to wifi to download new books (which may be as infrequent as once a month and which seems to take forever these days and prone to error, maybe because it's gathering so many OTHER pieces of data, such as discovering every book I opened in order to see if I'm in the mood for it now -no, not in the mood, next?-and telling Goodreads I'm reading it, obliging me to go to Goodreads and remove all 20.).If you buy e-books from Amazon and want to engage in a bit of digital civil disobedience-by stripping the files’ DRM and making sure that Amazon can’t deny you access-we’re about to show you how. I read KU books on Kindle devices without removing DRM for the same reason. To be clear, I'm curious about how it works because I want the author to get paid. It's amazon's job to fix the system, not mine. So if the last 50 pages of a book are just advertisements or letters from readers or whatever, I'll skim over them. If there's content in a book that I want to skip, then I'll do it. I'm not going to make this more complicated for myself than necessary. There's a difference between taking a KU book outside of their eco-system and gaming their author payments and doing chores for amazon.
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