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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Well, I mean, THIS. Yes.
I backup my books, but not necessarily the day I buy them. I've been buying 1-indie-a-day all week, but I'm in the middle of moving to a new house and I've not backed them up. If those authors decide to pull out tomorrow and go to Amazon, I'm out money and I'm not going to blame B&N. You can consider me wrong to do so, but I'm a customer and it doesn't work that way. No matter how wrong you may think me, I'm still not buying from that author again. That's not good brand-growing.
And here on Mobile Reads, I think it's a little disingenuous that we say out of the left side of our mouth most readers aren't tech-savvy enough to backup their stuff and out of the right side of our mouth if you don't backup your stuff, it's your own fault when I yank my book. It's one or the other, in my opinion. I think at least 50% of readers can't backup their material for whatever reason. If someone thinks it's okay to steal from them because B&N is respecting your distribution rights, well, I hope you didn't need those readers' money down the road, because that's all you're getting from them.
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Dang it! >.< I can't give Ana any more karma today. Otherwise there would be some floating your way right now.
I do this myself. I go on shopping sprees and then later go back and download my purchased books. Cause what good are ebooks if I can't enjoy the flexibility of them. Sometimes I don't d/l until I'm ready to read. Sometimes I d/l only when I'm at certain computers. Sometimes I NEVER d/l and read online (see Smashwords).
So, this KDP select thing is making me re-think purchasing any more self-published works. My husband loves this, btw. I used to spend thousands of dollars a year on books.
It's getting easier and easier to keep my money in my pocket. I boycott Agency6 ebooks (only purchased used DTB) and now I'm feeling I should leave most self-pubs alone, too. Oh,well...at least there's Baen and Harlequin. And my TBR Mountain.