You Bought It. You Don't Own It.
Introduction I have given Amazon way too much money, including Kindle books and Audible audiobooks. My favorite audiobook is probably The Martian, by Andy Weir, which I bought on Audible in the original Podium Publishing edition read by R.C. Bray, the recording that went on to win the 2015 Audie Award for Best Science Fiction [1]. When Crown picked up the print rights and the book went mainstream, Audible negotiated its own separate audio deal, one that didn’t include Bray’s recording. Audible asked him to re-record it, the two sides couldn’t agree on a price, and Audible had Wil Wheaton record a new version instead [1][2]. The Bray edition I’d paid for came off the store over that falling-out, not over anything I did. For a while, the only version I could find in my library was the new Wheaton one I’d never bought. At some point even that stopped showing up, and today I don’t see any edition of The Martian in my account at all. No refund, no explanation, for either change. ...