I'll be as brief as possible.
If you have a library on Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore's website, it's no longer there.
I found out by trying to retrieve a book from my WTS Books library on their website last weekend, and not being able to find a library of any kind!
Let me directly quote an email that I received in response to mine concerning this: "We made the transition to the new site without eBooks, so they are not available on our new site."
I got the representative to (grudgingly, it seems) to send me a zip file of all of my books. However, I haven't been able to unzip it, and I've had to write him, again, for instructions. But, bless his heart, he's given me a whole 6 days to get the zip file unzipped!
This is very distressing. I have bought
hundreds of ebooks from them over the last several years.
And, there was no advisory, about this change, either by email (I checked my emails from them from the last couple of months), their old website the last time that I checked it, or their new website, that this was about to happen. None!
If you created a library with WTS Books, I urgently suggest that you contact them,
now, at
support@wtsbooks.com or by other means, and ask for your ebooks.
There are wider implications. I know that we technically do not own ebooks, we just own(?) licenses to those books. But, does that give ebook vendors the legal right to eliminate our ebooks? Apparently, WTS Books thinks that it does. I know one thing, I'm going to be downloading ebooks from all of my libraries that I can, across all vendors, to my hard drive just as soon as I can.
Digital books have some wonderful advantages; however, I have worries about ebooks that I never had with physical books. For example, one of those pertains to the problem above. I have a huge physical library. I don't worry about someone coming in and taking a huge chunk of them away, like I do with ebooks.