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Originally Posted by barryem
Do any of you remember about 15 years ago when Barnes and Noble got into ebook publishing for about 2 or 3 years and then decided to drop it. I think that was on the Palm platform if I remember correctly. With about a month's notice they ceased to allow downloads. If you changed devices you were out of luck. You lost the book. It happens. I think I lost a book or two but they were books I'd read and didn't plan to read again. But a lot of people lost a lot of books.
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I remember when they sold ebooks the first time, they stopped in September 2003. Amazon sold ebooks before the Kindle came into being (from 2001-2006) too and folks lost access to those books as well.