Amazon Quietly Restores Wiped Kindle Account

Never be afraid to bitch very publicly about mistreatment

Never let it be said posting your woes on the internet doesn't yield results. After Linn Nygaard allowed Norwegian blogger Martin Bekkelund to reveal that Amazon had not only wiped her Kindle without warning but had refused to explain precisely why it had done so, the online retail giant has grudgingly relented and re-instated her account and her purchases.

Of course, Amazon has remained to true to its apparent principle of not giving reasons for its actions - Ms Nygaard simply checked her Amazon account yesterday and found it was active once more, Norwegian-language site NRK reports.

"I haven't heard anything from Amazon about this, except that I got a very strange phone earlier from someone with a hidden number," she said. "They claimed that they worked in Amazon.co.uk and would give me a new Kindle, but they would not talk to me about my account."