Joseph P Farrell – I knew as soon as I saw this story that I would have to blog about it. Not only did several people send some version of it to me, but the subject is near and dear to my heart. Reason? I’ve been warning about the dangers of ebooks for some time. And this story more or less concretizes and to some extent confirms my concerns.

Suppose one day you logged into your ebook cloud (or whatever it is), and discovered a notice that your ebook was gone. Not just “temporarily unavailble, please check back in a few minutes,” but gone.

If that sounds far-fetched, it has already happened to users of Microsoft’s ebooks (thanks to J.T. and F.S. for first bringing this to my attention, and to all the rest of you who also shared the story): Continue reading →