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Originally Posted by JSWolf
...what do you expect people to do who bought eBooks from Amazon in good faith and can no longer download them as KF8...
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While I consider it totally unethical, and IMHO "illegal", for Amazon to do this, it does reinforce the recommendation oft repeated on this forum: "When you buy a book, immediately download it, strip the DRM, and save it locally". Many of us here do exactly this.
While this definitely should not be a required step, it is a very good idea (if not a mandatory step) to do it anyway. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
When you see multiple examples over time of uncaring merchants abusing customer trust, it makes sense to just automatically take the simple steps to avoid putting yourself into a situation where the abuse will result in problems for you. This does not justify the abuse in the first place, but it is still a wise thing to do.