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Originally Posted by cpegg
I was wondering about this, if it's possible that the change has little to do with a desire to close gaps in their DRM. Could it simply be one step towards "standardizing" and "simplifying" to avoid dealing with legacy software, antique hardware, and obsolete (to them) file formats in order to reduce IT costs? Creating DRM difficulties is just a side effect? Perhaps not an unwelcome one, yet still incidental?
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To me that just doesn’t fit with what Amazon is doing. My hypothesis is that they are doing what they can to promote lock in to their reading infrastructure. They don’t appear to be taking any steps to discontinue their older file formats. They are happy to let you read on a Kindle, even a very old model. The areas where they keep making changes relate to being able to take Kindle books out to be read on other platforms.
So far the only place they haven’t tried to stop that is the Download and Transfer function that requires the customer to be a Kindle owner to use. If I am correct they will continue to curtail that functionality going forward.