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@rizla. Your warning may well ultimately prove to be correct, but we can't be certain at this stage. At the moment, you can obtain an azw3 or mobi via Kindle for PC, via direct download from Amazon for transfer via USB or of course via download to an older Kindle. The continued use of all of these methods is of course subject to Amazon's discretion. The third may be more difficult practically for Amazon to stop, but older devices will not be supported forever.
The problem is that we don't know what Amazon is planning to do or when. It is not necessarily true to say that Amazon benefits from further locking-down its walled garden. Certainly Apprentice Alf has been instrumental in giving Amazon some customers it would not otherwise have had. A group of customers who they will lose if they do move to kfx and it remains "uncracked". I don't know the size of this group of customers or whether there are enough of them to make moving entirely to .kfx unattractive to Amazon. But I suspect Amazon probably has a pretty good idea. The best advice right now seems to be to wait and see, and in the meantime enjoy the ability to make drm-free backups and convert between formats whilst we still can. If Amazon does not take the route you fear, no problem. If it does, we will all be worse-off for at least some time. If Amazon strengthens its system I expect that Adobe will take the opportunity to push its new ADE version about the same time. Intensive efforts to crack both will no doubt follow.
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