Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'

"We removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers," spokesman Drew Herdener said.
The move drew unfavorable comparisons to events in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", in which documents unfavorable to a fictional authoritarian government are dropped into a "memory hole," to be erased forever.
Herdener said the system would be changed so books would not be erased in future.
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