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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I don't think people are being heartless. The OP asked a question and received responses. I don't think they were preachy or cruel.
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I will direct you to the posts in this thread that tell the OP that this is All His Fault for not having the perfect backup system. That would be (a) lack of empathy and (b) entitlement. At least, that's how momma raised me, since you asked.
Also, the "walled system" argument is not relevant here. Best I can tell, the OP bought from Fictionwise for the coupons, not because he doesn't like Amazon, B&N, whatever. His books are no longer available as he had reasonably expected them to be. HE has been defrauded by the publishers. Well, that's my take on it.
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Originally Posted by ucfgrad93
Agreed. Yeah, it totally sucks that the OP could possibly loose the books he paid for. But the providers of those books are not obligated to replace them, nor is the OP entitled to free replacements.
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The providers of the book agreed to provide them, until they decided they didn't want to work with Fictionwise anymore and pulled their content.
And, yes, they are (morally) obligated to provide free replacements. It's not going to cost them anything to do so -- this is not physical media here. If it costs them nothing to provide the data AND the data was bought with a reasonable expectation of future download capability, then the onus is (morally) on them to do so.