When this eBook store closes, your books disappear too

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When you buy an eBook, you typically don’t actually end up owning the book at all

There’s bad news for users of Microsoft’s eBook store: the company is closing it down, and, with it, any books brought through the service will no longer be readable. This is how we’ve been led to this curious situation, where Microsoft’s eBook customers – however few – will see their book collection vanish, just because company executives have decided it’s no longer worth keeping the store running. Books sold on most eBook stores (but not all) come loaded with digital rights management software – DRM – which makes sure the copy you are accessing has been bought and paid for properly.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk