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Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident

Jul. 23, 2009
Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices. Kindle users were surprised last week to find that Orwell works they had...
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