Thread: Waterstones (UK biggest bookseller) to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader
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Old 05-22-2012, 08:53 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Now I'm guessing that a number of people (me, for example) shopped at waterstones as well as other places. This means that a bunch of your books will not be available for re-download if the library is moved over to the kindle - could be the first public backlash against drm as the public get scuppered when getting a new device (having part of their library in epub and part in mobi).
No bookstore guarantees to be able to keep your purchases available forever, Mike, and ePub books are not like Mobi books in needing to be redownloaded for a new device. Being a sensible chap, I'm sure that you have your ePub books safely stored in your ADE library?
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