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Old 01-16-2023, 07:42 AM   #483
VirgoGirl
"Why is it doing *that*?"
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Getting back to Amazon and their decision to limit how you read new books:

Aside from the "oh it's more work" BS, what I DON'T understand is why they did this across the board. Yeah, okay limit how you get/read books through KU, but if you BUY a book for MONEY, regardless of being in KU or not, why prevent us from downloading what we bought, even if it was published post Jan 3rd? <-- rhetorical question, sort of

They're now cutting out people who bought books to read on other platforms, which, no matter how small, reduces their income. With the cost of living what it is, buying a kindle to read books or a new phone or tablet to use their app is not always feasible. I know a lot of people who use old epub readers because they still work and have the sideload ability the new readers removed.

This is, IMHO, really shortsighted of the company, and just makes a lot of people (myself included) hate them more and look for other places to buy.

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