The Reamde Kindle Kontroversy⢠just gets more and more komplicated:
The e-book had been pulled from the Kindle store on Tuesday, and today customers who had bought it received a cryptic (and ungrammatical) email from Amazon advising them that âthe version you received had Missing Content that have (sic) been corrected.âThe manner in which this correction was applied has upset customers such as Cynthia Ewer, who was 400 pages into the over-1,000-page novel, or cdale77 who was 500 pages in. They were not upset at obvious typos in the book that they found so much as they were put out by Amazonâs high-handed notification that told them there had been âMissing Contentâ but gave them no idea exactly what or where that âMissing Contentâ was. (Even Amazonâs phone support people couldnât say.) Also, the replacement wiped out any highlights, bookmarks, and notes made in the previous version, as well as the place-keeping bookmark noting the furthest location read.
Whispersync⢠giveth, and Whispersync⢠taketh away. You should read the rest of the Teleread post, which links to someone who has compared both versions of the text and found very little "Missing Contentâ˘." (And I still heartily recommend Reamde, even if you have to read itâgross!âin paper form.)