Thread: Amazon removed books from my Kindle
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Old 08-25-2024, 01:14 AM   #537
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Originally Posted by odamizu View Post
As @Frogm4n says, that's not Amazon discouraging sideloading.
What it is, is Amazon making an incorrect assumption and acting on it. I am saying "acting on it" because I no longer believe this could be a bug. It's been going on for so long now, that it has proven itself intentional behavior IMHO.

So, the ebook's metadata says "EBOK". There are many tools that allow people to edit ebooks. Amazon cannot claim that as "their book" simply because it says "EBOK". Maybe they were the first to use that term. But who cares? They don't own it. There may be benefits to the way Kindles handle books labeled "EBOK" (I don't know if there is or isn't). Great. People should be able to grab that advantage if they know how to change their book's metadata. It's their Kindle and their book after all - not Amazons.

Amazon is operating on the incorrect assumption that if a book says EBOK and they don't have a record of the sale, that the book is theirs and they are free to delete it from your Kindle. Wrong assumption. Wrong actions taken by Amazon based on that wrong assumption.
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