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SAN FRANCISCO — has agreed it won’t remove e-books from U.S. users’ Kindle electronic readers without their permission as part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over the online retailer’s deletion of a George Orwell novel from a high school student’s e-reader.
Justin D. Gawronski, 17, a student in Shelby Township, Mich., sued Amazon after it erased copies of the Orwell works “1984” and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles in July.
Gawronski’s lawsuit claimed that removing “1984” from his Kindle made electronic notes he had taken on the e-reader useless. He was reading the book for an advanced- placement course in which he had to turn in “reflections” on each 100 pages of text.
