License expire notice?
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I’m not sure if I already asked this question sometime ago, so here I go again.
I‘m very curious about wether there will be a notice of titles (novel and manga) where the license is about to expire. It would be very nice if there would, so that you are able to buy and/or download any (updated) books you are still missing, before they will disappear from your library. Personally I am very slow with buying and downloading, so it would be really nice to know beforehand.Also it would greatly interest me how long a novel or manga is generally available after completion until the license expires. Around 5 years maybe (not sure if it‘s a long time span or short)?
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@Silver-Sugar-Duchess They've never let a license expire, so it's never come up.
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@saffire Yes, until now. But it will inevitably happen in the future.
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@Silver-Sugar-Duchess said in License expire notice?:
@saffire Yes, until now. But it will inevitably happen in the future.
Make frequent use of your user page. Download everything your own and then watch for a title to have the updated flag. You can’t see it on mobile, you need the desktop view. Download the update. Check again next month.
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So far, the only example we've had was New Life+, which was pulled by the publisher and we cannot buy at JNC anymore. My purchased volumes (all 3) are still in my library and available for download years later.
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@sorvani This sounds like a pretty good advice. I will probably do just that.
Buuut, does anyone know how long the “updated“ mark will remain? I don‘t want to redownload each book every month again.
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In general for digital goods the license expiring has meant no new sales. It has not meant that existing purchases disappear from your downloads.
There are a few scummy exceptions (looking at you Sony), but that's been the case for Amazon, Steam, GoG.com that I know of. I can still download the Sol Press books I bought through Amazon.
I trust that if JNC ever had a case where it needed to stop offering downloads of an existing purchase then it would give us advance notice.
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@Silver-Sugar-Duchess said in License expire notice?:
Buuut, does anyone know how long the “updated“ mark will remain? I don‘t want to redownload each book every month again.
It's a simple date check. If "your most recent download date" is earlier than "the most recent file modification date" then it shows you the [Updated] tag.
