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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Look, this is no different from purchasing movies from Xfinity. You will have the movie so long as you have their service, switch providers and lose those store priced movies as well.
If you want to ensure that you keep what you have paid full price for but THEY say you are only renting it, then either buy the discs or download and back up all of your books to your own secure site.
This has ALWAYS been the case, they have ALWAYS told you that you should immediately download your purchases, that they could NOT guarantee that you would always have the ability to access your purchases.
I took them at their word, and was able to keep all of my ebooks when Sony, ARE, and countless others went belly up.
If you refuse to do so, then you have no cause to whine about lost books/money.
You can whine all you want, but it won't change the reality of how it is. Adapt or move on.
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Except Amazon DO NOT tell you to download digital purchases, in fact the very opposite, they fill them with DRM and tell you they can store them for you!
The reality is that, as you said, we all have to do what we feel is necessary to protect our purchases. And sometimes this is solely because Amazon cannot be trusted to treat us all fairly.