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Originally Posted by S411il
Very sorry for the triple post but I wanted to show an email I received from them:
Thank you for your email. In regards to your question, the PDF course materials are DRM protected and can't be used on a Kindle paper white, as my colleague had stated. It is important to note that the PDF can't be printed off and that the PDF attaches itself to one electronic device.
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According to the link you posted just before, it just says it can only be read on the Kindle Fire.
The email seems to imply that it will only work on ONE Kindle Fire, which seems both counterproductive and difficult. I could see them using a claim link of some kind to give you the book in your Kindle Cloud (but it would still be downloadable only to the Fire) and it would use the Kindle platform to secure the book, but am at a loss to see how they'd protect it if it was a simple downloaded PDF.
So I have no idea what is up with this. You can try to clarify whether you get it as a Kindle Print Replica Textbook in the Amazon platform, and are allowed read it on any Kindle Fire connected to your account. If so, then you could get the .azw4 (Print Replica) book in the PC app (PC app is supported for Print Replica) and DeDRM it, then you will have a regular PDF. Maybe they are trying to make it "simple" for people by telling them it only works for the Fire. Maybe they have some way of encrypting it for only the Kindle Fire you download on (even without knowing which Fire that is, or having a DRM platform installed on it). Maybe they will give you an app with an embedded PDF? In which case it makes sense you can only read it on one device.