Amazon continues to face criticism and anger over its decision to delete books offered for sale for the Kindle e-reader, placed there by individuals who didn't have the rights to sell the texts in the first place. Part of the problem -- aside from the obvious concerns that Amazon badly overstepped its authority by deleting the books without warning -- is that Amazon didn't just delete the books in question when it clicked "undo" on all those sales. It also deleted whatever notes and annotations the reader might have associated with the disappeared novels.That's a problem for Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old who was studying 1984 for a summer English class and had all his notes deleted during the e-book purge. Gawronski is now filing suit against Amazon. His attorney, Jay Edelson, says that he appreciates the apologies Amazon has made for the incident, but that "Amazon.com had no more right to hack into people's Kindles than its customers have the right to hack into Amazon's bank account to recover a mistaken overpayment."
Edelson is seeking to take the suit to class action status, though it's unclear how many people were actually damaged by Amazon's decision to delete the books. Few people actually bought the books in question, and even fewer people use the Kindle for any sort of note-taking.
Gawronski is asking for financial damages as well as an injunction that would prevent Amazon from remotely deleting material from users' Kindles in the future, though Amazon has already intimated that it will no longer be taking such actions and will instead find alternative avenues to ensure it is selling only legal and authorized content. Edelson also says he's not looking for a quick buck here, saying instead that he'll donate any money received from the suit to a charity.
Source: Yahoo
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