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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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It launched 13 years ago (or at least this was one of the launches):
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-12-years-ago/
And it shut down in September 2003:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-up-on-ebooks/
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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.
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Amazon never actually stopped selling ebooks. They just stopped carrying the commercial formats (PDF and MSReader) in 2006-ish:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...november-2000/
And in their defense, they didn't control the ebooks they were selling so when Amazon stopped selling them users suffered the same fate as when Fictiownise or many other ebookstores shut down. My point is that this wasn't just Amazon but a structural flaw shared by many ebookstores.