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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I no longer think all this is just to be able to show people ads. The effort seems far too much only for that. I've started to think that Amazon is trying to stop their exclusives from ending up on pirate sites. As Amazon exclusives aren't legally available anywhere else, those who want to buy/borrow them must willy-nilly give their money to Amazon. The problem for Amazon is that lots of people probably just download pirated copies from various shadow libraries, and Amazon wants to stop this. That it also inconveniences their legal customers who want to read on non-Amazon devices or just make personal back-ups, is obviously of no interest whatsoever to Amazon.
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I just don't get it. I do have some favorite authors. Some of my favorite authors have gone Amazon exclusive. I just stopped reading them. There are just too many books out there to choose from for me to be willing to submit to Amazon's restrictions.
The last book I bought from Amazon (before I realized the DRM change), I was able to download from my Oasis but the cover was not is color. So I downloaded the KFX-ZIP from my Colorsoft and Calibre was able to copy the color cover to the liberated file. I haven't bought a book from Amazon since.