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A long long time ago, in the days of the Microsoft Ereader, long before ereaders were invented, Barnes and Noble also sold ebooks that could be downloaded to a PC to be read in their app. About 2 or 3 years later they decided to quit selling them and they sent all their customers a notice that we had 30 days to download our books and they would no longer be available. Period. Not available anywhere.
I had about a dozen of their books at the time, if memory serves. I wasn't really sure I cared that much but I downloaded them. Then a few months later I bought a new computer and sold my old one. That was the end of those books. I couldn't download the app so they couldn't be read.
Again, I'd read them and there weren't any I cared that much about so I didn't feel a great loss but still I felt cheated. I'd paid for the right to read those books and they took away my ability to do so.
That event probably had very little, if anything to do with B&N failing but I bet the attitude behind it has a lot to do with it.
Barry
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