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Would they really have a Kindle Unlimited without letting people download the books to and read them on their actual eInk Kindles, though?
With music, Amazon can restrict it, with apps, to streaming; I can't see how they could do that with eInk Kindles? Scribd, Oyster etc don't have that issue - they don't have their own eInk reader, so going with just apps is sensible enough. For Amazon, the eInk Kindle is what many of their customers and Kindle users think of when e-reading, and there would be a reasonable expectation of being able to read books on a device Amazon created for that purpose.
And if you can download a book to the Kindle, it can also be put onto the computer, cannot it?
How are loans (whether library or person-to-person loans) currently handled by Amazon? I've never used either, not being American, but I gather there is some kind of expiration built in? Does it work also when the Kindle is offline? Can the loaned books be downloaded via computer?
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