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Originally Posted by jhowell
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We are now coming up on the ten year anniversary of the deployment of KFX format. Amazon could at any time stop making newly published books available in the older formats. That would provide incentive for owners of those devices to upgrade without preventing previously purchased books from being usable on them. ...
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And piss off some customers and give them an incentive to switch to another platform.
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... If that happens then Kindles new enough to support KFX but old enough to no longer receive firmware updates, like your PW3, may be the only workable solution left.
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I'm not sure why there isn't a possibility that they will introduce a new firmware (and mandate firmware updates) and new DRM (similar to what is used in KFX) to older Kindles/formats for ANY new purchases. Does newer DRM require much more CPU?
It seems to me if people want to pirate, they will. They will go to whatever means necessary. If Amazon made their DRM 100% unbreakable, the only books that wouldn't be stripped would be Amazon exclusives.