Here’s a post I wrote for Consumerist where I point out that Amazon’s newly-clarified book deletion policy doesn’t solve the real problem, which is that Amazon can delete your books.

I must admit, it’s hard for me to come to terms with the idea of a company retaining any control over something I’ve paid for, even though networked devices by their nature must participate within a larger group. I suspect this will be one of those attitudes that dates me as future generations grow up within such a system and learn to accept it. But books are a special case in that they can contain revolutionary, heretical, or otherwise controversial ideas, which is the sort of stuff that people in power, or people seeking power, like to control. Call me crazy and paranoid, but I never want a government or legal agency wielding power over my books. Never.

“Amazon Clarifies When It Will Remove Kindle Books” [Consumerist] (Photo: alshain49)