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Originally Posted by GA Russell
If Amazon did so, I believe that they owe the OP all of his eBooks.
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Read the Terms of Service from Amazon. They don't "owe" him, you or me, the books we paid for, because we didn't buy books. We bought licenses to files, and those licenses can be revoked at any time. And it's been going on for years, long before Kindles existed. If there was a potentially successful class action suit to be brought, I'd imagine someone would have done so already.
Yes, it's ridiculous that we're paying "book" prices for the mere right to download and read the book. But that's exactly what we're doing. And it's not just Amazon--every ebook dealer has the same nonsense in their TOS. That's why so many people in this thread have chimed in with "back up your books", and why so many use Apprentice Alf's assistance to hang on to items they paid for with hard earned cash. Future technology shifts and seemingly arbitrary business decisions (or for that matter, companies that end up in bankruptcy) won't keep what most of us feel *should* be yours from you if you just back it up!
Irritating as all that is, we signed up for it, most likely by never reading the TOS at all, just hitting the "I agree and have read..." button.
What baffles me is that Amazon (or any company, for that matter) will provide zero information on what triggered the cancellation, citing "privacy concerns". Unless they somehow think that you're not the account holder (something they should be able to verify for the most part), whose privacy is being violated by stating the reason the action was taken? Only the person most concerned with the cancellation: the account holder. They have to know that this stuff makes it out onto the Internet, and it generates nothing but bad PR, paranoia, rumormongering and the like.