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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Stop publishing with them, then. If they deliberately made things more cumbersome, that's not going to change.
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I quote myself
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In a few months, if the DRM is still there, I will remove my book from Amazon
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However, I wanted to do one last test to see if it was possible to make them fix an obvious bug (even if probably intentional).
As a customer and author I have every right to try to report a bug and I bet that if it wasn't me alone who did it, Amazon would have had to fix that bug (even if it was there on purpose).
Which wouldn't change the fact that ebooks with drm would still be delivered with currently non-removable drm and, unfortunately, most ebooks on amazon have such drm.
What they should fix, however, is the presence of drm where the author has explicitly excluded it.
And, while it's true that this DRM is nothing new (it dates back to 2021 for Kindle PC app), it's also true that at that time I had no alternative stores to publish to and that until today the DRM was relatively easy to remove.
So it was a good time for me to try to report the bug.
That said, it is completely useless for you and others to complain about my choice... I already made the report, even if I wanted to I can't change this fact.
And frankly speaking I don't understand why you don't try to fight for your rights... it's not like keeping the "Download & Transfer by USB" option "safe" is that important (and I don't believe amazon forgot about it and is keeping it alive because they want, they just have to because old kindles do not read new drm)... it only works for those who own a Kindle that is really old today, given how things are what makes sense to do is to make a drm-free backup (while still possible with Kindle PC app previous version or the old Download & Transfer by USB method) and buy ebooks elsewhere like on kobo (if after that the new DRM will be defeated again we can think about that in a different way).
For ebooks only on Amazon you can contact the author and, if the latter does not want to publish elsewhere, you simply do not buy.
Sorry but I don't think "hide scared that amazon will remove working options" is a good strategy, expecially one that you can only use with an old kindle device... I think everybody that buy my book even without a kindle should be able to get it drm-free. As far as I'm concerned it's much more important that the fact that the Kindle PC app downloads with drm even where the author publishes without drm is fixed.
And, as an author and customer who cares about these things, and having found an alternative to publish, I will give amazon until October to fix this problem on Kindle PC.