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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by wrs on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:57PM (#3271198)
> what guarantees do I have that I can still read those books if B&N goes under

As the MSN Music shutdown (and others) demonstrated, quite possibly none at all. That's how DRM works.

There's no DRM media allowed in my house. I plan to live a lot longer than most companies' digital media divisions will!

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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by dangrossman on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:02PM (#3272525)
I still have MSN Music and Buy.com purchased albums in WMA format hanging around my music folders on backup drives... paid in full, "purchased" music that was turned into junk data I can't decrypt and play when the stores turned off their licensing servers.
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