&gt;  EBooks are in the cloud; you can never actually lose one forever. Just buy it again, which is very, very likely to be cheaper than photocopying a paper book.<p>In 2012 I bought some music in electronic format from Amazon.  A bit later they introduced the Amazon music service.  I looked in my purchased music section, and the music I&#x27;d bought in 2012 wasn&#x27;t there, and if I lose the downloaded files it&#x27;s not available to me unless I buy it again or the rights holders come to some agreement with Amazon.<p>It&#x27;s possible that stuff will drop out of the cloud when the rights become impossible to work out.  I&#x27;m not sure how likely that is with books, but it happens with films.  The most well known is &quot;Point Break&quot;, which now can&#x27;t be shown in public by cinemas because no-one knows who owns the rights.