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Totally agree, but unfortunately people (forgive and) forget and that's why those companies keep on doing this.

I myself forgot Microsoft once (cough) sold e-books.


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Uvix02/20/2025

Did Microsoft ever sell directly? They had Microsoft Reader but I thought all the stores were third-party.

However, Amazon did at one point in time sell ebooks in multiple formats pre-Kindle, one of which was Microsoft Reader. (I assume the others were PDF and Mobipocket.) So they have form for closing up shop and killing access to purchases like this.

evilduck02/20/2025

PlaysForSure was also a great name.

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