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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Thank you for your honesty, but surely you understand that several people in this thread -- myself included -- are not enthused at the prospect of paying $2.99 to rent your book for a whopping 3 months, at which point you intend to possibly remove it from our accounts and cut off device-sync.
If you pull your book from the B&N store in June, will you refund all your B&N sales before doing so?
I wouldn't buy a book from an author who was open to robbing my house and stealing my copy. I'm not sure why I should buy e-books from authors who are open to revoking my book license. Saying "You can backup to Calibre" ignores the fact that such actions are basically telling me that I could always (possibly) break the law and (definitely) break store TOS in order to suit an author's decisions.
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If I decide to no longer sell
Risen through B&N, and B&N's practice is to then take it out of their customers' archives as if it never happened, then that is a B&N issue. Once you buy it, it should stay in your B&N library forever, IMO, whether I'm still selling it or not.
Personally, I think that anyone who trusts to B&N, Amazon, or anyone else to maintain their library is skating on thin ice. I put out
Risen with no DRM for exactly this reason (and others). Once you have it, you can copy it to your computer, your work computer, your tablet, your flash drive, or burn a CD or DVD. You can put it on the Cloud somewhere: your back-up program (Mozy, Carbonite, etc.) can back it up for you. You can send it to your mother to keep for you. It's yours!
No, I won't refund your money if I stop selling at B&N and
they take your book away.
They should do that.
But I still have trouble believing that this happens. It would be a very stupid business practice!
If B&N takes books out of people's archives once the author stops selling there (can someone verify or refute this?), then, no, I won't tell you to get Calibre. I'll tell you to get a Kindle!
I'm not promising I won't rob your house, either. Do you own any valuable paintings? I need another Van Gogh to balance out the one I stole from that museum in Cairo. Floral motif preferred.
(Note to the Egyptian police: That was a joke.)