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Originally Posted by issybird
Yup.
For some years, I've been store agnostic and I'd download directly to the relevant device. I had a slight preference for buying from Kobo, all else being equal, but I'd buy from Kindle when it was cheaper. However, once Amazon drastically reduced their kickbacks in the Kindle rewards beta program, I shifted to Kobo. It's always cheaper, given the gift card discount and rebates in combination with the price-matching program when list prices differ.
My point. Everyone here has downloaded their Amazon purchases and DeDRMed then. So going forward, why not just buy from Kobo? Or another ebook purveyor (some of my own books come from Google)? Or at least figure you'll buy from Amazon until you can't, and then you'll move on? Comforting yourself in the knowledge that Amazon has lost business (which is a reason to switch now, if your resentment is sufficient).
Yeah, I know. There's some tunnel vision here. I have zero interest in Kindle exclusives. But even at that, my understanding goes only so far. Why not just... read something else? You'll never be able to access all the books you'd like to read and you'll never be able to read everything you'd like to anyway. The books I don't buy are legion and as with so many here, I'll never be able to read everything I already own.
In short: annoyance, I get. Being upset, I get (don't get me started on no longer being able to download audiobooks to the Windows OverDrive app). But the outrage, the gloom and doom -- I really don't get. As things stand now, you'll still be able to buy books and download them and read them on your preferred devices, even if not from Amazon. But the indignation because one store has decided to make itself somewhat less accessible in line with what has always been part of their stated user agreement, even when you made your original purchases.... It's a headscratcher to me.
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Me too. I've stopped with Kindle eBooks when they cut off 2023+ releases from being liberated. Although most of my book purchases lately have tended to be stuff from Humble Bundle when they have something that interests me (granted, not that often). No DRM though! Or I just read a book from the library. Have to really want it to get it off Kobo.