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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
...why prevent us from downloading what we bought, even if it was published post Jan 3rd?
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...
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To be fair to Amazon, post the introduction of the Kindle, Amazon never intended you to read Amazon purchased ebooks on other platforms. It only works because clever people found a workaround and Amazon let it lie.
It still sucks. And I agree with you: what is the harm? But regardless...
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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.
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I know that argument is coming from a good place, but it is nonsense.
Reality being what it is, the ratio of people who have an old (non-Kindle) reader, but have no phone or tablet is somewhere around zero (or negative if you count people with phone
and tablet, but no reader). And how would those people buy the ebooks in the first place?