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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If the book is removed from their sales offerings, it may or may not remain available for download.
Geographic restrictions can be added after purchase, preventing further downloads. This happened at Fictionwise. When the book's contract changes, the previous publisher may no longer be legally able to offer it--and ebook stores, despite their promises of permanent access to one's purchased libraries, have been very erratic about providing that. They don't host the books themselves; they contract with the publishers & DRM server hosts to process the books anew every time the buyer wants to download it. If that title is no longer available through that publisher, or that DRM host has changed systems, the book is no longer available.
A diligent reader can convert non-DRM'd ebooks to whatever the new, trendy format is, to make sure it's still readable. And even without much diligence, txt remains a viable backup format for long-term storage. Neither of those options exists with DRM.
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That's exactly what happened to me at both Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard. And that is why I started to strip DRM from the books I had already downloaded.