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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9896983" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think it's likely that they'd change to requiring a subscription to access books you'd paid for, because that would likely lead to lawsuits, which they'd lose, or them having to refund everyone who ever bought a book on Beyond in Europe or the like.Requiring a subscription is representative of gross modern rentier capitalism, but the long-term concept with their approach to books is, what happens when Beyond is done? At some point it'll stop making enough money to be worth it to WotC, just as the DDI did, and they'll shut it down.And WotC have offered no clarity on what they'd do in that situation.My feeling is that if it's shut down whilst WotC are still a going concern with some significant hope for the future at that time, they'll probably offer PDFs of all the books someone has bought for free.But if WotC are being sold/have been sold or aren't doing great, or worse, are actively being shut down, I think it's quite unlikely they'll do more than say "Just download the app and download the books on to it, and I guess don't change phones ever again because it won't be on the Apple/Google store indefinitely" (indeed it'll definitely disappear from the Apple store within single-digit years because of Apple's approach to security and apps).</blockquote>