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by danielbln 1033 days ago
Or shut it down and throw it onto the graveyard on a whim.
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arglebargle123 1030 days ago
You can always dump your licenses from the web interface, pull down the books with the Adobe fulfillment software and then strip the DRM using calibre.
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Dah00n 1033 days ago
FUD.
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ghusbands 1033 days ago
It seems like a reasonable worry. Google Play Music was shut down, as have been so many Google services over time.
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anon____ 1033 days ago
Wikipedia lists 61 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s....
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xNeil 1033 days ago
sure, but what percentage of their products have they shut down?
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john-radio 1032 days ago
The problem with that reasoning is, it's not like Google is rolling a percentile die. They shut down projects that don't pay stockholder dividends, no matter how popular or widely used those projects are. So...
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anon____ 1033 days ago
Judging from this other, possibly incomplete list, most of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

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freedomben 1032 days ago
"shut down" seems a little strong since it was replaced with Youtube Music. For most users it was a UI change but otherwise they didn't even notice. This is very different from other products that were actually shut down where they just turned them off.
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ghusbands 1032 days ago
I had purchased music from them, none of which is now available to me, apart from what I downloaded.
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