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Originally Posted by ATDrake
By "non-recoverable download link" I didn't mean that people couldn't download again, as that's stated right on the site. I meant that people only got the single link in one particular email message associated with their purchase, and if they ever lost that particular email message, then they would not be able to download their purchase again, even if the system allowed them to, much less get a message with the old download link sent to the email on record.
Which is again something the new site warns about, that you have to take particular care to preserve that particular email message associated with said purchase.
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And with spam so prevalent, many email systems are extremely bad about simply routing some messages to the trashbin (not a spam folder), which means that there is no guarantee you'll even get the first message. Hopefully you also display a download link at the end of a purchase, so that the person is at least guaranteed one shot at downloading what they have spent money upon...
At the very least, a library list should be maintained for a person's account, with download links (even if tied to one format), as is done at AllRomance. Better would be a list of purchases and links to download all formats (as you get at Ellora's Cave/JasmineJade/Fictionwise's multi-format books)