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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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.
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Amazon had choices. They could have completely cut off all downloads by older apps or cut off only newly purchased books instead.
By cutting off downloads only for books published after a specific date they can claim to be stopping downloads because those new books use technology that is not supported in the older app versions. But there is actually no technical reason for that. Those new books are functionally identical to books published last year.
In other words I think this is a dishonest attempt to deflect customer complaints. “I’m sorry but old apps just don’t support new books.”
Honest would be, “That old app lets you do things that we don’t want you to do, so upgrade already.”