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Originally Posted by HarryT
The situation with the "Brother Cadfael" ebooks is a strange one. In the UK, at least, they were all available as ebooks for several years (and I bought them all). About a year ago, they simply vanished. I can only think that perhaps the rights were sold to a different publisher.
It's situations like this that cause me never to have a "wanted" list for ebooks. If I want an ebook, I buy it, because you can never guarantee its future availability.
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I wonder if it's a similar situation to what Disney does with their movies. The widely advertise them and sell them for a while in whatever format is popular at the time, after which they go "back into the vault forever," 'forever' meaning until they decide to release them again. As a marketing ploy, it must be working for them, because they've been doing it for years.