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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
None of this has any relevance at all. If the guy's books were on his computer, or on his device, he wouldn't have any issues. The problem is that he (allegedly) kept all of his books on Amazon's cloud and can't access them since he is locked out of his account.
And, again, he is not being denied access to books he has downloaded or books he has on his device. Only books he kept in the cloud and nowhere else.
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Somehow, I don't think that's the case (not unless you keep your device offline or block the Kindle app on a firewall). I bought a (pretty horribly formatted) Kindle ebook from Amazon. I requested a refund from Amazon and within 5 minutes of the CSR processing the request, the locally downloaded copy of the ebook was removed from the Kindle for PC and Kindle for iPad libraries. In my case, I obviously don't care as I have no intention of reading the ebook. However, imagine if the same thing had happened to a personal library of hundreds or thousands of purchased books because the account was suspected of being hacked. The only way to have circumvented that was if you had made DRM-free back-up copies of your ebooks - not really something the average consumer bothers with.