No kidding. A few years back the Kindle community got a bit of a shock when many thousands who had purchased and downloaded a particular book had Amazon suck it back. Apparently there was some kind of licensing fracus with the publisher, so they had to delete it from the devices of people who had just started reading the book.
I assume they got refunds, but that would be a real bummer.
That is correct. Add that the book in question was Orwell's 1984 and you have a case of cosmic irony. And yes, it was a copyright issue - they thought the book was in the public domain but Orwell's heirs had kept the copyright active. Oops.