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Originally Posted by latepaul
I can understand that and if I were an author I wouldn't sign with Select. However I'm not convinced that an author can retroactively rescind my right to a copy I've legitimately acquired.
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Unfortunately, they can. The purchase terms make it clear that you are buying a temporary, revocable-at-will license. You are not purchasing the book as you do when you buy a pbook. This is one of the major distinctions between pbooks and ebooks and a major basis for complaints about ebooks.
Have you (i.e., "you" generally, not "you" latepaul) forgotten so quickly Amazon's deletion of the Orwell ebook from Kindles. Amazon was within its rights to do so, even if it was a PR disaster.