Thread: Amazon has removed Download & Transfer option
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Old 03-22-2025, 07:20 AM   #834
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
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I do not think that Amazon's use of DRM is about preventing piracy. It is all about lock in, making it difficult for customers to take their books to another platform such as Kobo. That is why all books in KFX format have DRM, even when the publisher has requested that it not be used.
Maybe. So they are hoping that existing/new customers are ignorant that they are currently/will be in a walled garden?

I wonder how many customers will be pissed when they find out, and how many won't care.
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