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FizzyWater · 12-02-2008, 01:10 AM

I don't know if this really belongs in this forum, but it seemed important to share.

One of the "pluses" for ebooks, as far as I was concerned, was that the books were always available on my online "bookshelf" for re-download if something happened to my computer, or I upgraded credit card (for my eReader books) or change PIDs (for my Mobipocket books). It's made me rather complacent about my backups, I will admit.

Today, I went to redownload a book I bought a year ago at Books on Board. It wasn't on my bookshelf. I look back at my records...yep, bought it at BoB.

So I checked my "receipts" section and see:

1. This title is no longer available for purchase/download.

Holy crap! The link is gone. When I searched for the book in the BoB catalog, the book is gone.

And that made me wonder - I had recently re-read Fictionwise's Terms of Service - when did that site start saying they would "make every effort" to make a book available on your bookshelf for at least 3 months after you purchase it, but couldn't make any promises??

So now I'm thinking of redownloading everything, to a removable drive, just to make sure I still have a backup...maybe.

12-02-2008, 01:10 AM	#1
FizzyWater You kids get off my lawn! Posts: 4,220 Karma: 73492664 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Device: Oasis 2 and Libra H2O and half a dozen older models I can't let go of	I guess it had to happen sometime - book disappears from BoB online bookshelf I don't know if this really belongs in this forum, but it seemed important to share. One of the "pluses" for ebooks, as far as I was concerned, was that the books were always available on my online "bookshelf" for re-download if something happened to my computer, or I upgraded credit card (for my eReader books) or change PIDs (for my Mobipocket books). It's made me rather complacent about my backups, I will admit. Today, I went to redownload a book I bought a year ago at Books on Board. It wasn't on my bookshelf. I look back at my records...yep, bought it at BoB. So I checked my "receipts" section and see: 1. This title is no longer available for purchase/download. Holy crap! The link is gone. When I searched for the book in the BoB catalog, the book is gone. And that made me wonder - I had recently re-read Fictionwise's Terms of Service - when did that site start saying they would "make every effort" to make a book available on your bookshelf for at least 3 months after you purchase it, but couldn't make any promises?? So now I'm thinking of redownloading everything, to a removable drive, just to make sure I still have a backup...maybe.