Another day, another lawsuit. A lawsuit has been filed in the US District Court of California claiming that when you buy a book in Apple Books, you don’t really own it.
Plantiffs Jennifer Morehouse and Keri Smith say that when consumers purchase audiobooks and e-books, they assume that the purchases they make will be accessible to them in perpetuity. However, they claim that with Apple Books this is only an “illusion,” as customers are actually only purchasing a revokable license to access the books — and this means that access can be revoked at any time.
The lawsuit adds that Apple is required to pull a digital book or audiobook from the Apple Books app if it loses the license to that content. This means that the content no longer being available in the app’s store. And this means that that some customers have unexpectedly found that digital books they previously purchased were no longer available to re-download, despite having paid for them.
Apple removes books without warning, and without providing refunds, the lawsuit adds. The plaintiffs are seeking up to $5 billion (yep, billions!)in damages,
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