A number of news site Thursday carried reports of Amazon's decision to pay $150,000 to settle two lawsuits pertaining to its July removal of George Orwell's novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from its Kindle e-reader.

However, the settlement, filed in Seattle on September 25, does not specify how much either of the two plaintiffs - high school students, Michigan's Justin Gawronski and California's Antoine Bruguier - will individually receive. In fact, most of the settlement amount, after going to the law firm KamberEdelson LLC, representing the plaintiffs, will be donated to charity.

In his lawsuit, Gawronski had said that he was adversely affected by the unceremonious deletion of the Orwell books from his Kindle because the deletion also partially consumed his homework.

Talking to The Times about the irksome experience of losing his work, Gawronski said: "It's a lot of brainstorming. It's nothing super concrete. I was between a quarter and halfway through the book. I had a good amount of notes. Those notes survived, but they pointed only to strings of characters, where the novel's text had gone missing."

The Amazon move to delete the Orwell books from all Kindles had met with such widespread criticism that CEO Jeff Bezos, while extending an apology, called the move a "painful mistake." Bezos also said that Amazon would use the "scar tissue to help make better decisions going forward."