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Originally Posted by jhowell
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.
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If they extend this to older books, my theory would be that they're trying to close the "buy - strip drm - refund" route, considering their recent changes to the refund policy. But this make less sense if it's only for newly-published book.