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On a dark and stormy night, an employee of your local bookstore strolls into your home, starts tossing books you'd purchased over the last few years into a box, and — despite your protest — takes them all away without saying a word.
Thankfully that's not what happened to Linn Jordet Nygaard. Well, not exactly. The Norwegian woman found herself on the wrong side of bureaucracy, but the outcome was much the same (without as much mud on the carpet): Amazon turned off her Kindle account, blocking her from her own books. And they wouldn't tell her why.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer - Technology on NBCNews.com
You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer - Technology on NBCNews.com
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