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Originally Posted by barryem
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.
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Amazon was similar. IIRC they both used an outside distributor (OverDrive or LightningSource probably) instead of hosting them directly and when they stopped selling eBooks (in '03 or '04 IIRC) and those agreements with the distributor(s) ended the access to books also ended (just like when OverDrive dropped Fictionwise). A much different world than the more modern stores that both stores run today.