Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion

Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion

It also isn't clear that deleting copies after the fact makes much of a difference: Amazon still participated in copyright infringement, so the copyright holder could still go after them.

Right. Some of those customers already read the book. The damage is done. There's a lot we're not being told about what transpired -- seems to me the copyright holder would have demanded royalties from the beginning and Amazon would have written a check instead of messing around with file deletions and refunds.