Similarly, books are now often purchased on Kindles, which are the Hotel Californias of digital devices: They enter but can’t be extracted, except by Amazon. Purchased books can be involuntarily zapped by Amazon, which has been known to do so, refunding the original purchase price. For example, 10 years ago, a third-party bookseller offered a well-known book in Kindle format on Amazon for 99 cents a copy, mistakenly thinking it was no longer under copyright. Once the error was noted, Amazon—in something of a panic—reached into every Kindle that had downloaded the book and deleted it. The book was, fittingly enough, George Orwell’s 1984. (You don’t have 1984. In fact, you never had 1984. There is no such book as 1984.)
10年前，一个第三方书商在亚马逊上以99美分一本的价格提供Kindle格式的书籍，并误以为它已经没有版权了。 当发现这是个错误，亚马逊(有点惊慌失措)进入每一个下载了该书的Kindle并删除了它。 这本书就是乔治-奥威尔的《1984》，很应景！