>you are out of luck and have to buy a new one. Yes. A new version of that book, not a new version of every book in your library. >Of course, by centralizing

>you are out of luck and have to buy a new one. Yes. A new version of that book, not a new version of every book in your library. >Of course, by centralizing many books to one physical object, you risk losing much more content as you lose that physical object. But the advantage is that, in case it breaks, it can be repaired (which might be impossible with a physical book) Which is irrelevant if the company doesn't allow you to redownload the data, as in this story.