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Originally Posted by Tarana
No matter where I buy audiobooks or ebooks, I make sure that I can download and de-DRM and store on my computer. I think it's a smart thing to do. You complain about B&N, but similar problems occur with Kobo now too. Amazon, no problem so far.
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Not quite sure what you mean by that comment about Kobo having similar problems to B&N. The books I purchased from Kobo are still in my library and I can either manually download them or synchronize them to a Kobo ereader or Kobo's Android, iOS, Mac or Windows application despite some of the books no longer being sold by Kobo. Pretty much the same as with my Baen purchases where I have even more books that Baen no longer has the right to sell but I can still download them due to having purchased them way back when. If I want to deDRM a Kobo kepub ebook synchronized to my computer, Obok comes in handy there.
Perhaps you can point out the similarity to B&N? Looking at some of the comments about B&N, Kobo still has direct download from their website, you can use their app, etc. Yes, they have pretty much abandoned their original non-touch ereaders but it's been a few years and technology has moved on.
I have never had a book pulled from my library due to Kobo finding themselves in a situation similar to Amazon's when they discovered that a publisher did not have the rights to sell the books in the United States resulting in Amazon pulling those editions of 1984 and Animal Farm back from the people who purchased it. Perhaps you can point to a source if this is what you were referring to above?