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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I really don't get the reluctance of people not wanting to download their books to their pcs/laptops or whatever. Once it is there, you don't have to worry about a store closing, or whether or not there will be a smooth transition to another store because you have the books you paid for in your pocession.
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Who's reluctant? But it's like anything else, there's two kinds of people in the world... those that backup their data, and those who have never had a harddrive fail (data loss event).
That said, I don't have my ebooks backed up. Amazon has em all. But, I also don't buy books prior to reading them, I wishlist em. I also seldom re-read books. So, the loss of my library would suck, but not be devastating. I threw away (well gave to the library) pretty much all of my paperbacks, I saw no reason to keep em any more.
Also, no one is losing anything there. The book store is still there and you can go an d/l stuff now that you know the store is going away.