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The only other situation is if you buy an ebook and then ask for a refund, Amazon will delete the book from your kindle (some people say this isn't true, that Amazon deletes it from your online archive and so the next time you turn on whispernet the book goes away. This seems like the same thing - it's just mincing words). I certainly think that's fair - you asked for a refund and amazon gave it to you. They want the book back.
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Actually it is not mincing words. Amazon cannot reach into your Kindles harddrive and remove documents. This means that Amazon cannot remove a PDF you sideloaded or a copy of a book you purchased from another publisher or a copy of a book where you have stripped the DRM.
Amazon can only remove material that you have purchased from them, that they are storing for you on their servers. That is a huge difference. In the 1984 case, there were people who had downloaded the book onto their personal computer. When Amazon deleted the book from the users archive, many of these folks put the copy that they had stored on their computer back onto their Kindle. They did not lose that copy of 1984.
Amazon did not delete anything from peoples hard drive. They deleted a book from peoples archives that were stored on Amazons servers. People who had saved a copy of 1984 to their individual harddrives were able to reload the book to their Kindle and it stayed there, even the pnes who had not stripped the DRM.
This is why the lesson from 1984 for many folks was to download a copy of the book to your computer so that you always have a copy to sideload just incase Amazon, or any other compay, stupidly removes books from the archives. Some folks say that the real lesson was to strip the DRM immediatly.