Amazon settles for $150,000 over Kindle deletion
Orwellian error paid off
5 October 2009 9:19 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott
Amazon's decision to remotely delete digital copies of George Orwell's 1984 from customer's Kindles has cost it $150,000.
The figure - a settlement amount reached between Amazon and a high school student - is in addition to the $30 compensation it offered each affected customer.
The lawsuit was filed by a 17-year-old high school student in the States in July. As well as losing the digital copy of the book, the student lost electronic notes he had made for an assignment.
Amazon had deleted 1984, and Animal Farm, as it found out the correct rights had not been obtained. In an apology Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called the move "stupid".
The $150,000 is to be donated to "a charitable organization that promotes literacy, children's issues, secondary or post- secondary education, health or job placement".
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