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Originally Posted by HarryT
We were not talking about Amazon, but about Fictionwise. They were forced to remove from customers' bookshelves the books that they could no longer sell due to a dispute with the publishers. This had no impact upon those copies of the books that the purchaser had already downloaded.
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My mistake. Fictionwise was a different situation but I don't believe they were forced to remove the books from the customer's bookshelves (books they had already purchased). I assumed that they were removed because of how their systems are designed (i.e. when they removed ebooks from the sales site it also removed them from bookshelves).
If you take DRM out of the picture I agree with you that the ebook could have the same or better perceived value then a paper copy. The production, distribution and overhead costs are all reduced though so I still expect them to be sold for less.