Thread: Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre
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Old 06-16-2020, 07:44 PM   #816
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
I tried it on a book in KFX format downloaded using Kindle for PC version 1.28 and it worked for me.

I am curious to see how long it takes Amazon to react to this. They appear to be taking the integrity of KFX DRM seriously.
I fear that may well be the case. In which case we will likely have the usual arms-race type scenario with long periods where Amazon DRM cannot be decrypted. I believe this would result in some loss of sales to Amazon, though unfortunately I think only a tiny minority care about DRM, making these minimal. Though who knows. We do tend to read a lot of books.

Interestingly enough, if Amazon is now taking DRM more seriously, what has prompted them to do so? I doubt the large publishers are able to exert significant influence in this regard, even assuming they wanted to. Amazon does seem to have excellent data and I would presume any such policy is data driven. Or perhaps it is simply an experiment.

I'll watch what happens with interest.
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