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The EFF wants your DRM horror stories
Tell Us Your DRM Horror Stories about Ebooks, Games, Music, Movies and the Internet of Things!
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Fictionwise was an online company reportedly owned by Barnes & Noble.
After purchasing a first generation Nook e-reader, I bought e-books from both B&N and Fictionwise. As Nook grew and changed through its generations, B&N ultimately dropped Fictionwise. B&N sent emails. B&N offered to transfer the files to Nook content. For me it never happened, despite my following directions, honoring their deadline and many pleas to B&N customer service. I lost more than $300 of books due to the closing of Fictionwise. |
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The Fictionwise closing isn't really a DRM issue. I remember while Fictionwise was still in operation that one was supposed to download purchased titles within a relatively short period of time after purchase - which I think might have been a week? It was written on the receipt emails.
There were ebooks that I had purchased from them that I failed to download in that time period, and a month later when I went to download them they were no longer available for download. Fictionwise told me that there was nothing they could do about it; they no longer had access to the titles, either. These were Random House ebooks, and their contract with Random House had expired. I actually ended up getting to download these missing titles after B&N closed Fictionwise and moved the ebooks to my Nook account. There were about a dozen of them, and I was pleasantly surprised to get them back. |
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It seems strange though - if any publisher decides not renew a contract with Amazon, does that mean that I would lose access to previously purchased books and they disappear out of cloud? |
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There have been books on Amazon where the publisher has stopped selling it or it's been picked up by a different publisher or the pub has gone under and the original book purchased can still be accessed by purchasers (but not found in the store) and I've seen the same thing at Kobo. I'd have to guess when Amazon set up for selling eBooks their second time around they put some provision in the contract that once a book is "purchased" any purchasers will continue to have access even if the publisher quits selling it, goes under, stops dealing with Amazon, etc. |
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