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Well Amazon sent a command to all the Kindles, ordering them to erase all copies of a particular book, namely 1984 by George Orwell. Somebody said that they had burned up the year's supply of irony by choosing that book. So now we know Amazon can remotely erase your books. Now Amazon, after doing this, promised it would never do that again, but our freedom to keep a book for as long as we want, and read it as many times as we want, should not be dependent on any company's goodwill.