{"id":792,"date":"2009-07-19T18:12:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2010-01-31T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T09:21:18","slug":"kindle-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/07\/19\/kindle-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like something out of George Orwell: E-book editions of <em>1984 <\/em>and <em>Animal Farm<\/em> have been vanishing from  people&#8217;s personal Kindles.  I might add that these e-books have been purchased and fully paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, at the request of an Orwellian publisher, has been repossessing these e-books without permission and refunding the purchase price.  (More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/07\/19\/kindle-swindle\/\">commentary here, plus my three verse limerick about this outrageous invasion of privacy,<\/a> plus an update about Amazon&#8217;s welcome Kindle policy change.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> If you would like to read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0035FZP02\">general humor blog on your Kindle reader you can subscribe right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read my other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0035FZSN6\">political satire blog on your Kindle device, you can subscribe right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/01\/30\/blogs-kindle\/\">limerick about Kindle blogs is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like something out of George Orwell: E-book editions of 1984 and Animal Farm have been vanishing from people&#8217;s personal Kindles. I might add that these e-books have been purchased and fully paid for. Amazon, at the request of an Orwellian publisher, has been repossessing these e-books without permission and refunding the purchase price. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,48,74,1005,10,42,43,8,461,3,69],"tags":[458,459,457,460],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-humor","category-computer-humor","category-crime-humor","category-internet-humor","category-kindle-humor","category-legal-humor","category-limericks","category-media-humor","category-money-humor","category-privacy-satire","category-technology-humor","category-writing-humor","tag-e-books","tag-kindles","tag-orwellian","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}