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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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That is a danger - and you can get it shut down for any reason (including someone trying to hack your account or just typing in the wrong password too many times, I suspect, which would look the same to the bots that detect such things.
Of course, if you did lose the account and were not able to get it turned back on, that would be pretty solid grounds for a suit (esp. after the big Amazon announcement).
Over at B&N (and not just there, I've had it happen once or twice in others stores), you also run the risk of your book becoming something else the next time you check on it. Although the product page has changed at Amazon, I still could download the original book (but it's title was wrong on my Kindle), when a publisher pulled a similar switch (they replaced a completely different title, under the same ASIN, different author as well, so not the usual James Patterson bait-and-switch of titles on this freebies).
So far, I haven't seen any of the indie books disappear from my account (including Kitt's), unless I purposely moved them to the TRASH folder in my media library (which hides them from the online login, but not the archives on the Kindle).
On the other hand - get over about 3200 books in your archive and you can't see any past the magic number on any Kindle on your account, only on the MYK web page. I don't know what the equivalent is for a B&N or Kobo account, as I refuse to let those devices sync anymore, as they do such a poor job of it (esp the Kobo, which insists I should download every single book on my account if it syncs ... even though it would take days to do so and it won't fit on the device).
And yes, dropbox or box.net are both good backups (it's harder to accidentally delete at box.net, but also harder to upload). I would avoid amazon's free cloud storage, simply because you are back to a single source (and companies do go bankrupt or change offerings -- and legally cannot give notice of such to their customers).
I think one I had a lot of issue with was on the Read an eBook week program - used to be PDF only and had to download then (they now appear to have a library shelf and multiple formats, but all their books were repeats this year).
The worst, of course, are authors who set up their own "special" stores and download facilities (you probably know who I'm talking about, in one case). Sure, it's DRM-free, but now you aren't depending on a company staying in business, but a person remembering to pay their website fees (and stay alive), along with their store software. At least one of these is using a limited time download, also. Others have moved from their old download stores to offering titles at Amazon (and presumably removed the old downloads - one of whom used to sell a lifetime, all-books subscription, which I believe is now missing for redownload).
Speaking of authors doing their own things, I just noticed that FLP has removed the Harry Potter books from their reservation lists (although all my reservations are still in place). No idea if they'll be able to honor the ones they set up (I hope so, though) before they had to remove them.
Perhaps this is the one you were thinking of, for when the cloud dumps upon thee?
No, he's not thinking, those are air bubbles rising to the surface!