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Originally Posted by arelem
My PW7 running v.5.16.2.1.1 now downloads KFX-ZIP files for 2 new ebooks. After purchasing the books and identifying that they indeed download KFX-ZIP I returned them immediately. Previously this same PW7 downloaded purchased books that allowed DRM to be removed.
For me, this is the last straw for AWS. If I cannot find a source where I can purchase a book and allow for reading on my platform of choice, I will no longer be purchasing ebooks. Right now the only platform I've found is Kobo.
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What I'm seeing is that some (but not all) recent purchases are not available for download or delivery to my PW10th gen ('not compatible' when I try download).
I cannot say when this started happening or if some non-recent purchases are as well. I only resort to using this when Kindle for PC is 'not compatible' or downloads AZW3 instead of KFX (I have not set up Sats' latest yet).
I've been seeing some really weird 'not compatible' with K4PC (apart from recently published books), but rarely: in one case it was a very old purchase and even public domain material.
It's not clear to me Amazon is instituting this or the publishers are going through their titles and blacklisting old Kindles (or older versions of Kindle for PC). I don't see a consistent pattern.
If you can download them, you should be able to decode them - at least that is my experience to date.
Make sure you allow a little extra time before you plug into USB so they are fully downloaded, and of course verify the serial number is still configured for the plugin.
Google Play Books might be another alternative, but in my limited experience Kobo downloads have cleaner HTML/CSS (though they don't pass epubcheck without a couple of edits).