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Originally Posted by burnafterreading
if one of the parties ceases to exist and there's no clause in the contract that dictates who steps in to replace said party, then the contract ceases to exist. and thus does the license. no more contract, no more license to read the book, no more access to the book. how are (some of) you people not getting this!?!?
if someone is worried about what happens to a $3.99 ebook, then they clearly aren't leaving much else so they've led a pretty meaningless life. if someone is saying they've got tens of thousands of dollars tied up in this, then maybe they should have paid more attention to what they're buying or had a more suitable contract drafted.
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A number of ebook sellers have closed down over the last few years, for example Book Depository UK closed it's ebook store, Books on Board, Sony etc
At the time that these stores gave notification that they were closing down they advised customers to download their purchased ebooks from their servers and to store them for themselves. The explained to customers that they would not be able to access those ebook purchases again once the store had closed.
Sony sold it's customer base purchased ebooks to Kobo and so there were two options: Sony would transfer your purchased ebooks to your nominated Kobo account (and Kobo servers) or you could just download your Sony purchased ebooks once and for all.
Are you suggesting that there is/has been an ebook company that failed to inform their customers prior to their closing?