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Originally Posted by tompe
From Wikipedia: In August 2006, Amazon stopped selling DRMed PDF and .LIT format ebooks. Customers were unable to download purchased ebooks 30 days after that date, losing access to their purchased content on new devices.
Also removing box related to specific subjects from the rating system.
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DRM is a conundrum of problems. I don't like it, but other than that since it is required by the people (originator, publisher) that "own" the product it is a necessary evil in acquiring that product. On the other hand, afterwards, as they like to say "in the privacy of your own home" do what you wish.
I am going to miss the .LIT format. Microsoft has stopped supporting it. It was and is my favorite form of reading books on a computer.
As for Amazon's actions, here we are considering whether Amazon is a friend of the customer and only what was done for the customer.
Did they make good on the article that was sold?
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Excuse me. I left out some.
On their rating system, of course they can do what they want with the boxes and such. I am just glad they have a rating system that you can read, and even verify that a comment you made was published.
On the other hand, they do some stupid things, like when you go to the trouble to enter 5 stars, or maybe something else, they won't publish the rating unless you put words in the comments box. I am not going to waste my time commenting unless there is very good reason to do so, so anyway, I hardly ever rate anything unless I have a bad comment.
One exception was recently when a very nice lady in Hawaii who sent me a used book did such a great job that I was pleased and impressed, and she, I gave a long and glowing comment.