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Originally Posted by DaveCanRead
I was just wondering how some had their books deleted from their ereader.
What not to do, to avoid this happening.
Like were these missing drm that shouldn't have been missing, or objectionable content in the book.
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In the much publicized widespread Kindle case, it was a question of Amazon selling a "self published" version of Orwell's "1984" that the "publisher" didn't have the rights for. That meant that Amazon would have been on the hook for royalties and possibly damages to the actual rights holder. Rather than pay that out they refunded those who bought it and remotely deleted it from their devices (causing problems for some who had notes etc attached to that version that no longer meant anything). Due to the outcry, Amazon promised to never do it again, although they likely have the technical capacity to do so. Who knows if the other companies have the same ability or not, but for PR reasons I doubt it will get a widespread use again. The other more isolated Amazon cases have been where Amazon has claimed people broke their terms of service (i.e. buying from a different country than they lived in IIRC) and Amazon closed their account (which cut off any further access to download of these books). Obviously in these cases Amazon and those whose accounts were closed have different views on what transpired and I'm not going to claim to know who is right.
The easiest way to protect your books is to use Calibre and get to know Apprentice Alf (do a google on him) and keep a copy on your own computer. This may or may not be legal depending on where you live, but it will protect your books (including in case the bookstore you bought it from goes out of business).
And as someone above has probably already said, the LICENSE rather than OWN thing applies to all the bookstores, not just Amazon or Kobo.