“Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM’d books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. ‘The books will stop working.’ I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time,” Rob, cofounder of RPG game company Evil Hat, said in a viral tweet.

Even ebooks that Microsoft had given away for free will no longer be available to read…

Source: ‘The Books Will Stop Working’: How The Microsoft Store Is Retiring Its Books Category