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Originally Posted by anamardoll
This is not a B&N issue.
If an author tells B&N to stop distributing their book, B&N must stop.
If an author tells Smashwords to stop distributing their book, Smashwords must stop.
If an author tells Amazon to stop distributing their book, Amazon must stop.
You are not saying "Buy a kindle!" You are saying "Buy my book at every store, just to be sure you don't lose access!"
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Ana, you seem to be deliberately missing the point.
ONE THING: Offering a book for sale.
ANOTHER THING: Making a purchased book available in the buyer's library of stored books.
B&N and Amazon offer TWO SERVICES: Buying, and archiving.
If a publisher stops offering their book to the "buying" service, that doesn't remove it from the "archiving" service. A bought book is a bought book.
At least, that's how it is at Amazon. If the book is withdrawn from sale, people can't buy it. But the people who've already bought it HAVE FULL ACCESS TO IT, including syncing across multiple devices.
If B&N doesn't work this way...if these TWO SEPARATE SERVICES are somehow conflated so that removing a book from sale ALSO removes it from people's libraries...well, that's just wrong. And it's definitely a B&N issue!
<<You are saying "Buy my book at every store, just to be sure you don't lose access!">>
Uh, no. (Does anyone else here think I've said that?)
<<Just that it's not in some peoples' perceived best interests to buy from an author open to turning off their license without notice.>>
I can't do that. I can't turn off licenses. Only the seller can do that.