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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not the publisher's responsibility to keep your books safe for you for all eternity; it's YOUR responsibility. When you bought the book, did the Sony bookstore give you some kind of guarantee that your book would be stored for you forever?
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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
Now, to DRM. "Generally if you move from one device manufacturer to another you are going to lose your books locked into that store." Yes, and that's not right. You can tell me that's the way it is, that's the way I bought them so I should have known that. And sure, that's still all true.
That still doesn't make me happy that I chose to drink the Kool-Aid, or a feeling that now I know, eventually, I've thrown away that $50.00.
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When I buy a paper book, it is generally assumed that I have access to the text of that book forever, so long as I take care of said book.
But now that you mention it, I do seriously wonder what Sony has to pay per year for storage of all eBooks they've published and access to D/L the text via the Reader software. The cost is non-zero, absolutely. But I suspect that in a maintenance state in whatever server farms Sony uses, it would be trivial compared to their annual revenue.
And edit to add... With my MP3 collection, I utterly have the ability to keep my collection around forever and so long as someone makes a player that can handle MP3 files I have access. (And I make sure that I have said collection backed up in multiple locations so I never lose the whole.) With DRMed eBooks, I have the ability to keep my collection around and accessible for only as long as the vendor exists.