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Originally Posted by haertig
That just reinforces what many people recommend doing. Step one: Buy book. Step two: Download to your local computer. Step three: Remove DRM. Step four: Convert book to whatever other formats you use now or may in the future. It's probably smartest to do this from the get-go on every book you purchase rather than waiting on some announcement from Amazon that makes it imperative to do it, preferably ASAP. You may have a backlog of a lot of books to do if you're not proactive and instead choose to wait for the announcement (assuming the announcement comes with adequate lead time in the first place - there may not even be any announcement, or you may miss it).
Another reason to be proactive: What if this scenario unfolds? Amazon announces their pull-out along with allowing you to download your books until June 30, 2023 (like they just did). China says "Screw you Amazon! We will ban you from any connections into China immediately!!!" (which is something they have the capability to do). You better hope you have been proactive, otherwise you lose it all, despite what Amazon had planned to allow initially.
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Let's just say that if EPUB2's Adobe DRM hadn't been removable, I would never have gotten into e-books except for maybe some of the classics.