Kindle Swindle?
On Friday news broke that Amazon had quietly reached out over its whispersync network and deleted copies of “1984? and “Animal Farm” from the Kindles of people who’d purchased copies of the two George Orwell novels. Even though Amazon said the books were only available by mistake and credited every customer’s account for the costs of the e-books, pretty much everyone was furious. Blog posts were thick with the words “irony” and “Orwellian.” Jeff Bezos got called “Big Brother.” And blogger James