Thread: Amazon has removed Download & Transfer option
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Old 02-15-2025, 07:00 AM   #236
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From 26th February 2025 Amazon is removing Download and Transfer. This means only delivery by WiFi direct to a Kindle or Kindle App. Amazon always put DRM on KFX, ignoring publisher request for DRM free. All Kindle Apps, Fire and eink Kindles after the Paperwhite 1 get KFX rather than azw3/KF7, which was DRM free.

So to continue to get the DRM free versions you must purchase from the Publishers that insists on DRM free from Kobo, Google, ebook, Smashwords etc.

Amazon may claim that if "DRM free" is selected then the KFX file will work on any KFX enabled Kindle (any after PW1) or Kindle App or Fire tablet. That's disingenuous monopolist behaviour! KFX is a proprietary protocol* and format only supported by Amazon and always has some form of DRM, i.e. encryption.

[* It allows starting to read while downloading]
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