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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Wait. Amazon doesn't offer the option of being exclusive "from here on"? Because if they do, so that all books that have already been bought in other stores are still available to their buyers, that removes a large part of what most here seem to take issue with.
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Once you decide to go exclusive with Amazon, your book has to be removed from any other venue that has it for sale. So if you have it on B&N and I've not yet downloaded it, it's gone and I've lost access to it. So if you were to gift me a book and by the time I saw the email and got to B&N and went to download it, it could be on Amazon. Your money wasted and my book snatched from me. If the author then decides to stop being exclusive with Amazon and puts the book back up on B&N, it's still not available to my B&N library as the link is different. So once it's left B&N, it's never mine again.
I can't say what happens on other sites as I just don't know.