I have a friend with the original Kindle. It's been at least a year since I helped him put books on it. The 3G, of course, doesn't work since Amazon changed that. But we were able to buy him some books, download them and transfer it to that Kindle.
I don't know that that still would work but my guess is that it would. Amazon has been real good so far about making sure their books work on old devices. Changing everything to a new DRM or format would end that. My guess is that even though there aren't that many older devices around there are enough that it could turn into a gigantic support problem for Amazon.
I'm just guessing but I'd be surprised if that happened in the foreseeable future.
Barry
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