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by IcePic 684 days ago
Quite similar to when MS made their ebooks "stop working" because they shut off the validation servers. It's not that reading is a massive multiplayer thing either, only that the "book" needed to talk to a server before you are allowed to read it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/books-in...