Thank you for this. Grr. I need to make a timeline for "death of Ebook types."
I think this is the first major close-out of DRM'd ebooks since Amazon stopped selling PDFs the first time, in 2007. (I need to track down when ebookwise's .imp stopped being sold. But those were never seriously competitive to mobi .prc ebooks.)
Since then, B&N's been gradually closing the gate on ereader .pdb, but they're not quite *gone;" the ereader.com store still sells a limited title selection, and for a while, they were sold for the first version of Nook.
This is a delightfully roundabout way for Overdrive to announce, "If you want to keep what you paid for, CRACK IT NOW. In another month, we don't promise you can read it after your next upgrade/device change."
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I think this is the first major close-out of DRM'd ebooks since Amazon stopped selling PDFs the first time, in 2007. (I need to track down when ebookwise's .imp stopped being sold. But those were never seriously competitive to mobi .prc ebooks.)
Since then, B&N's been gradually closing the gate on ereader .pdb, but they're not quite *gone;" the ereader.com store still sells a limited title selection, and for a while, they were sold for the first version of Nook.
This is a delightfully roundabout way for Overdrive to announce, "If you want to keep what you paid for, CRACK IT NOW. In another month, we don't promise you can read it after your next upgrade/device change."