Recovering audiobook

I bought an audiobook from iTune store and downloaded it to my library. I listened to the book. My computer crashed without a backup. I have reloaded everything from scratch. Now, I see the book in my purchase history (part of my iTunes Store account info). How do I get the book back into my library on my PC?

Hello zoob-nc,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Purchases made from the iTunes store (with the exception of Apps) can only be downloaded once. If you lose the purchased content, you will need to purchase it again. For information, see this Apple support document.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1469
However, there is still a chance iTunes support might let you download it again for free. I say it's at least worth a shot. Here is how you can contact them.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact.html
B-rock

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Upon further research it seems I can not download an audiobook more than once and the only way to now recover it is to beg apple to re-redeem my purchase? Is that correct?

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Buy a backup drive. Next time it will be everything on your computer missing, including things like photos which nothing can recover.

Recovering audiobook

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