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@eschwartz. Thanks for the info about the metro app. I only use Windows when I can't avoid it, and am actually quite amused watching both MS and Apple attempting to move their PC OS's to an appstore type model.
I should have been clearer about the "DRM Apocalypse". I doubt there will be a problem in the shorter term. There may in fact never be a problem. But the seeds are there for one. If Amazon decides that its interests are best served by moving to kfx, this is the direction they will take. I do not expect them to cease supporting older devices completely. But if they were to move the PC Apps to kfx and remove the USB download option (or move it to kfx) it would become difficult to obtain kf8 and older formats without actually having an older device. As things stand, they remain the best option if Adobe's new DRM becomes widely adopted tomorrow. The fact that they might later go exclusively kfx is no more relevant to this decision than the fact that they may actually become a monopoly in the future. We could, however, be a little more confident in Amazon without the kf8 format in its current state.
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