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Originally Posted by darryl
An interesting question. They would certainly have to stop selling it, but having already done so would they be compelled to remove it from the online libraries of the purchasers? I don't have the answer, but tend to doubt it. But why take the chance? It's yet one more reason to keep a local backup of all of your files, preferably free of drm.
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Kobo accidentally sold me an ebook in the US on its UK release day once. It wasn't scheduled for release in the US for another year. I didn't find out any of these details until much later, of course. I was recommending it to friends and they were telling me they couldn't buy it. When I checked my online Kobo library, the title was listed, but went to a "
title unavailable" page when clicking on it for the details. Couldn't redownload it. It still behaves that way today (in my online library) even though the title is now available in the US.
I backed it up myself, so I'm not really out anything. My only beef is that being able to buy the first ebook early means that I have to wait two years between the first and second books of the series instead of one! It's my own fault, though, for breaking my own "
don't start a series until all its installments are available (or very close to it)" rule.
