Thread: Do you worry about the Kindle "future"?
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Old 08-19-2010, 02:03 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Juliette View Post
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I do have faith that Amazon will keep something up: if they, in the end, abandon Kindle, they'll have some kind of backup plan like permitting re-download into other formats, simply because it would be bad press to make so many customers (and their attorneys) discontent. (And more than discontent, at that point).
If you read the license for ebooks -- not just Amazon's but including Amazon's -- any of these sellers could drop a format and not let you redownload into another format. The license is a lease agreement that is terminable at will by the ebook seller.

I wouldn't have much faith in any of the individual sellers; I have more faith in the product when it is usable now by more than one e-book dedicated device, that is, it is in ePub format without DRM.
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