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Originally Posted by wallcraft
The following surprised me: I did not think the Kindle store actually stored backups of each individual ebook you bought but rather regenerated them from a master if they needed re-downloading. Or perhaps Andrew Savikas just means that the new DRM-free versions can't be used as replacements for the existing DRM-ridden ones.
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I just took it to mean that when they update it on the site, it isn't automatically updated on your Kindle. I assumed that if you re-downloaded it, you would get whatever version is on Amazon's site at the time. In other words, if you do nothing, you'll have the version you initially downloaded.
It wouldn't make sense to me if Amazon kept track of which version of a book you had, and then fed you that version again. (Of course, hat brings up the question of what they would do if a new version came out that was greatly expanded.) I suppose it's possible that they actually keep track of what version of a text you have, but that wouldn't fit with the publishing-on-demand model I thought they were using for this.