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Originally Posted by cybmole
What's to stop Amazon from one day deciding that maintaining K4PC, K4Mac etc is not worth the hassle, and decreeing that book "owners" must either go buy a "proper" kindle handheld ( on which they can be advertised to ) or lose their book access.
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Nothing. It's likely that one day even the Kindle devices themselves will stop working. 3G data networks aren't going to be available forever and one day Wi-Fi networks (using standards compatible with the current devices) will no longer exist.
Amazon could simply stop offering Kindle as a service. The same can be said about any service like this though.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
After all, they have already either deliberately or incompetently made many earlier versions of K4PC stop working - permanently. I don't recall any apology for that, or any admission that they'd done anything wrong/ anything in breach of licence.
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It's generally accepted that if you want to use a vertically integrated service like this (where hardware, software and a service are heavily integrated) that you have to install the latest software update(s) to continue using the service.
The Kindle Terms and Conditions state this is a requirement.