Amazon removed books from my Kindle

[slm]

As best I can tell, the terms of the "license" Amazon grants when "selling" an ebook are, in their entirety:


"Use of Kindle Content. Upon your download or access of Kindle Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Kindle Content (for Subscription Content, only as long as you remain an active member of the underlying membership or subscription program), solely through Kindle Software or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Supported Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider. The Content Provider may include additional terms for use within its Kindle Content. Those terms will also apply, but this Agreement will govern in the event of a conflict. Some Kindle Content, such as interactive or highly formatted content, may not be available to you on all Kindle Software.

Limitations. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense, or otherwise assign any rights to the Kindle Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove or modify any proprietary notices or labels on the Kindle Content. In addition, you may not attempt to bypass, modify, defeat, or otherwise circumvent any digital rights management system or other content protection or features used as part of the Service." (from https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=201014950).
The only additional relevant text I can find on that page regards "risk of loss": "Risk of Loss. Risk of loss for Kindle Content transfers when you download or access the Kindle Content."

I'm not sure what this means in the context of the "cloud" Kindle library.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

The "1984" removal is just one topic covered. It also covers issues like Amazon changing the cover image for books in the device library. I think that this thread and the additional topics raised in the video demonstrate Amazon's attitude to their user's ebook libraries on Kindle devices.

Given that Amazon changed the edition of the book, does this mean that annotations may no longer be there or be correct?

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Given that Amazon changed the edition of the book, does this mean that annotations may no longer be there or be correct?

The cover thumbnail shown in the Kindle's library view reflects the current marketing cover for the book and automatically updates to match the latest cover that the publisher has provided for the product listing of the book. It can differ from the cover shown at the beginning of a Kindle book when reading.

In most cases if a publisher updates a Kindle book after publishing those who purchased the book continue to have whatever version was current at the time that they purchased it. In some cases the publisher can convince Amazon to make the change available to previous purchasers. Customers have the option to accept available changes or retain the original version of the book.

If a customer chooses to accept a new version Amazon uses an algorithm to match up equivalent parts of the old and new versions and migrates the location of annotations when possible. However it does not always work perfectly, especially if major changes have been made.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jhowell

The cover thumbnail shown in the Kindle's library view reflects the current marketing cover for the book and automatically updates to match the latest cover that the publisher has provided for the product listing of the book. It can differ from the cover shown at the beginning of a Kindle book when reading.

In most cases if a publisher updates a Kindle book after publishing those who purchased the book continue to have whatever version was current at the time that they purchased it. In some cases the publisher can convince Amazon to make the change available to previous purchasers. Customers have the option to accept available changes or retain the original version of the book.

If a customer chooses to accept a new version Amazon uses an algorithm to match up equivalent parts of the old and new versions and migrates the location of annotations when possible. However it does not always work perfectly, especially if major changes have been made.

Thanks. That makes more sense.