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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
That is the convenience of the ecosystem. If you wait until it becomes neccessary to future proof your purchases, it will probably be too late. Buy for the device and download directly, but back up regularly. With Kobo and Kindle books the likelihood of the store folding and you losing access is relatively low. The real worry should be that from one day to the next the loopholes to conveniently remove DRM could be plugged.
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I agree with you, which is why removing the DRM is the first thing I do when I buy a book. That way, if something happens over night, the worst is that I can't remove the DRM on one book.
I will say that given the Kindle store has been in business for over a decade, I think that it's fairly unlikely such a thing will happen. There may be new formats, but I think the movement seems to be more and more books published without DRM.