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As you very well know - I am talking about Amazons new format (.kfx) they send out through auto delivery (with no option to "opt out") - if you dont just "get a free book" or a "DRM free book" in an old format from the internet.

Some of my criticism is, that this community sometimes to a fault, wan't to embrace old standards - "because they are still allowed to understand those and tinker with them".

I am talking about the future, and that for the normal Amazon user this is changing very quickly.

We are both right. But for the majority of Amazon customers your usecase is not how they get in touch with what we formally called a "Book" on Kindles. Now its a blob. We never should fully be able to understand.

It is very hard to thing about how you would educate people to buy Kindles (now also "overpricedTM"), but at all cost avoid buying books within Amazon eco system, because - we are on the verge of loosing any ability of removing the lock in (getting "your book" as supposed to your "license to look at it"). And already - Amazon itself decides when it shuts down the circumvention mechanism I described above. Or just makes it even harder.

Also - because Amazon chose to advertise with "children experiencing an open world" the exercise to make this about those very children and what they are actually paying in it return, becomes an obvious one.

Developers usually think about people of their own ilk and how they would solve or circumvent problems. But lets just use the people Amazon advertises to for a moment. How would you explain this "future" to a child?