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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
They don't need to close the loopholes, because more than enough people voluntarily use the formats/devices they want them to use. Which means they can easily afford to ignore the ones who don't; without needing to waste the time and effort of pissing them off by abandoning them (or cutting them off).
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That is logical and fits with how Amazon has behaved so far. The older formats are needed to support the older devices still in use by customers.
The main area that still makes no sense to me is that Amazon continues to deliver the older formats through the "Download & transfer via USB" option on their website even for devices that support KFX. I suppose that option may be used infrequently enough that they do not consider it to be worth upgrading. Still, that seems to me to be the most likely thing for them to change.
There are expensive textbooks that Amazon is making available only in KFX format and only on devices and apps with unbroken DRM. I believe that choice may be publisher driven. Perhaps other publishers may opt for that out of piracy paranoia, but I doubt it will be commonplace.