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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Not always true. Especially when the publisher has forced Fictionwise to remove their titles from their servers. Geographic restrictions change, rights are sold, and many such scenarios that the ebook seller has absolutely no control over. Surely Fictionwise can't be expected to break the law in order to keep a permanent copy of their customer's purchases on their servers forever?
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I am blaming the publishing company for not honoring his Fictionwise purchases, not Fictionwise. I realize that Fictionwise would happily provide the files if they could.
Now, re: geo-restrictions, rights, etc. It is
possible that some of the files he bought are no longer available to be sold by the publisher in his geographic area. I highly doubt it, however, and those would be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Having said that, once again, the point of these "you bought the license" agreements is that the eBook isn't supposed to POOF disappear the next day because of rights being sold. The trade-off for not being able to re-sell my eBook is supposed to be the fact that it's "mine" to use forever*.
* On a limited number of simultaneous devices, yada, yada.