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Originally Posted by JBaby
I haven’t bought any books from Amazon since D&T was removed. I still have KU though. I don’t see having it as a conflict. As far as I’m concerned it’s like a streaming service. I was never someone who only ever bought books from one store. So the removal of D&T hasn’t really affected me much. Since the removal I’ve bought 285 books. I’m a big fan of book bundles. I just bought the Martha Wells Humble Bundle yesterday. I have 8 library cards. I rarely ever buy individual books these days.
I message indies to let them know why I won’t be buying their books. I do so nicely. I explain the situation and I wish them well. I keep KU because I want to still support indies. I used to buy the KU books that turned into favorites, but I no longer do that.
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KU is a streaming service and buying the books supports the Indies far better. All KU ebooks can be bought and that benefits Amazon less than a KU sub.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...-prime-lawsuit
Though bought Kindle titles can't be directly downloaded to PC, they are still downloaded locally to the app or kindle, unlike "buying" streaming video content, which is deceptive marketing.
I will stop buying ebooks from Amazon if they can only be read while online.
The Licence (shown on USA on book page and not in EU) is deceptive. You do have the same reading rights for a bought ebook as bought paperback that is in copyright. It's just that the digital file nature rather than a physical artefact makes transfer more difficult. Breaking Amazon's claimed licence would require them to sue you for the losses. If Amazon doesn't have the copyright they likely can do nothing more than close your account, only the copyright holder (or assigned publisher) can sue for copyright violation. Again they have to prove losses.
SO:
- Never upload a copyright ebook to the Internet (in theory Send to Kindle – other than for PD titles – violates copyright as Amazon Kindle files can't use it and Cloud storage does too as most will scan content for AI models).
- Remove the DRM
- Make Backups
Without DRM removal and backups you don't really have what you paid for. Copyright, DRM and the USA's malicious DMCA are three separate entities.
DRM is incompatible with Copyright, because usually it doesn't expire.
DMCA is a sop to USA Media corporations to allow control of consumers.