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Originally Posted by rhadin
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.
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Do you have a cite for that. I looked over the TOS and haven't found anyplace where the terms stated that you were buying a "temporary, revocable at will license." And I don't believe it.
What's happened in the more recent cases is not that Amazon has revoked anyone's right to the books they purchased. Instead, Amazon canceled their accounts and since the people hadn't downloaded the books they bought to their devices, they no longer had access to them on Amazon's servers. Which is not the same thing.