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Originally Posted by whitearrow
You know, whatever you think of Amazon, I am willing to bet that if they introduced a major DRM change for some unholy reason, they'd offer firmware updates right back to the Kindle 1 to make sure all of their customers could still read their books on the devices they'd purchased.
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As pointed out above, Amazon has in fact updated their DRM repeatedly.
Not many notice because they don't break the readers and Alf's elves have kept up.
The same applies to their ebook formats: with few exceptions (graphic novels, fixed format, and the like) they will transparently feed a compatible version to even the oldest device or app. The last thing they want is for consumers to worry about the plumbing.
They want users to buy and read and buy some more.
It is how they make their money.