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At Carpetmojo, I PMed you with my procedure of backing up my books. I hope it helps. Since I described the DRM removal I believe it would be against forum rules so I didn't want to get in trouble.
Again I believe that this is a hard lesson learned by the OP, but I also believe that he should be able to retrieve these books as he has already paid for them. If Fictionwise and the other sites he got the books from were still around, he would have downloaded them for free after the crash anyways. It isn't his fault that the companies are no longer providing the service they originally intended. I know that a ton of people that have kindles, nooks ect probably don't back up their books relying on the fact that Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo ect are always going to be there to provide downloads in case something should happen. Well things can change and companies change. Barnes and Noble could go down like Borders, Amazon could suddenly stop supporting the kindle, or even more realistically, certain publishers could suddenly pull their books from Amazon for whatever reason. Since Amazon wouldn't have the rights to distribute said books, people who bought them would be out of luck.Not saying that this is going to happen but it could. Now all the people that haven't backed up their purchases could be out potentially thousands of dollars and be in the same position as the OP. Now no homeowners insurance is going to cover this, so unless you backed up, you are either going to have to respend the thousands to get your purchases back, or get the books from elsewhere. I know that I am not made of money so I would do the latter, I also bet that alot of others would do the same if stuck in the same position. I guess it really is a morality or judgement call.
I guess in the end the lesson learned is to BACKUP anything you deem of value. Don't rely on the companies to do it for you. Anyone who relies on the cloud storage of companies like Band N, Amazon, and Kobo are waiting for a disaster to happen.
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