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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, I don't know.
But I suppose Amazon could legally make the argument that you purchased and downloaded the book, hence it was a valid purchase; that you don't really have a "right" to continued downloads, except through your continued acceptance of and cooperation with the terms of service, and that when you violate the terms of service and forfeit your not-really-a-right to an account, you also forfeit whatever right you had to continued downloads of your book.
That being said, even if it is legal I don't necessarily think it should be legal  and also Amazon would be a fool to do so regardless, if it earns them bad PR. |
The current situation is that there are no terms of service violations. Amazon is closing accounts based on unpublished rules. Even if Amazon is warning customers first, the customers may not be violating any contract in place when they bought their ebooks. Legally, that might mean that Amazon is unilaterally refusing to provide service that has already been paid for.
I'm guessing that the policy is to be circumspect and hope that affected ex-customers simply go away without trying to regain access to purchased books, but to allow it if the ex-customers ask.