Orwellian Omission?

NYT reminds us that Orwell was a visionary, not just an author...

In George Orwell’s “1984,” government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the “memory hole.” On Friday, it was “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,” that were dropped down the memory hole — by Amazon.com. In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.

I'm a big advocate of "real" books and newspapers, despite my heavy use of the internet to read as well. This would make me rethink the Kindle. They say it will not happen again after this incident, but Amazon has removed other books before, according to the article.