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Won't the books remain on the reader device, even if the store closes? The discussion is also old. I realized that I end up lending only a small fraction of bo
by bubblewrap 8y ago
Won't the books remain on the reader device, even if the store closes?
The discussion is also old. I realized that I end up lending only a small fraction of books to other people, and my kids will probably not care about most of my books. Storage of paper books also costs money, so rebuying the few books I want to pass on or reread may be cheaper than buying and keeping physical copies of books. So I chose ebooks.
- joe_the_user 8y agoI assume books are encrypted on the ebook reader and the reader operates by going to Microsoft each time someone tries to open a book and getting an encryption key show the book unencrypted.
- bubblewrap 8y agoThat's not how it usually works, does it with Microsoft? It would be very limiting and annoying to be unable to read books without internet access (say on the beach on holidays, for example). Certainly not the case on Kindle. There were cases were people's Amazon accounts were cancelled, so they couldn't buy new books from Amazon. The books they already bought remained on their kindles, though. There were also cases of Amazon deleting books from kindles, when the books became illegal. Any reason to assume Microsoft operated in a very different way?
- manojlds 8y agoEven borrowed Kindle Unlimited books can be read for a while if you don't connect your device to internet.
- netsharc 8y agoPresumably the tech is different, but Zune DRM for music bought before 2012 would've stopped working in 2017. The service itself closed down in 2015. So maybe they have a model where the license is valid for e.g. 5 years, and at that point in time the devices would've been clever enough to download new licenses. Has anyone made "ZuneBook" puns yet? Edit: hah Zunebook was an MS tablet that was supposed to compete with Amazon Kindle tablets...