Thread: New Kindle format: KF8
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Old 10-21-2011, 07:07 PM   #106
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Not necessarily. Especially if they're moving to a system (as it seems they are) that transparently delivers the proper format to the proper device/app. The DRM scheme has already changed since the K1 came out, but you can still get brand new books delivered to those K1's with the old DRM that's based on a device PID. I don't see much difference between that and K4PC version 1.0-beta still chugging along. They haven't had any trouble maintaining and preparing for backward-compatibility yet, so I see no need for them to suddenly start. The new features alone are often enough reason to get people to upgrade all on their own... so there's really no reason to force those upgrades with a heavy-handed approach.
Interesting.

It's quite unusual for a vertically integrated platform like Kindle to not feature "forced" updates at some point.
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