[factoryrat]

Nope, but feel free to shop amazon and re-purchase all of those books.

Amazon most certainly has a clause protecting them from claims of lost data.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Nope, but feel free to shop amazon and re-purchase all of those books."

There's no need to repurchase the books. They can be redownloaded from the user's kindle account page.

[Blennos]

This happened to my wife’s Kindle this morning. Everything was wiped out. It took my 10 minutes to restore all settings and documents to the prior condition. Nothing was lost. I did have to re-download a few books though. No real harm done.

[doomtrooper99]

You do not need to re-purchase anything.

You have ‘digital rights’ with Amazon for all your eBooks. If your Kindle gets wiped, just re-log in to your Kindle with the same Kindle/Amazon userID and password used to buy books and re-download your titles.

Recently Amazon asked users to download an update for their Kindles before March 20. Since many users turn 3G/wifi off to extend battery life Amazon also asked users to keep their Kindles on-line.

I think they are doing something on their system, and they had a small ‘accident’