So I have an iPhone and the kindle app - which, I guess, sort of makes me a kindle owner since I'm now allowed the privilege of purchasing ebooks from amazon that are intended for the kindle reader.
But I also have Stanza for the iPhone, which is a
vastly superior ebook reader.
The catch is I'd rather read the books I bought from amazon in stanza, not Amazon's
primitive kindle app.
But it seems that not only did amazon initially break the ability to download my ebooks to my PC, they've gone ahead and completely removed the feature from their site.
So here I am with the Kindle app and books I bought, and a reader I want to use, but I can't use the reader I want to read the books I paid for.
So does anyone know how to get amazon ebooks off of the iPhone 3GS? I've tried iPodDownload and iPodExplorer, and iPhone backup explorer - all to no avail.
Note: The (hopefully) good news is, Amazon just yesterday bought Lexcycle and they were alluding to the fact that Stanza would soon be able to read amazon books.
I really hope they don't do anything lame like cripple the software after the acquisition, but I'd still like to be able to backup my purchased books. Because, quite frankly, I don't trust Amazon after they
deleted people's purchased books remotely.
If I go to a bookstore and buy a book, the bookstore isn't allowed to mess with it after it's been legally purchased thanks to a little thing called
First Sale Doctrine that is often abused by publishers in this digital age.
So I don't think Amazon should suddenly be allowed to violate first sale doctrine just because it's digital. As a result I'd like to protect my purchases from remote tampering by backing them up, as well as format shift them into something more suited to my needs. But I have not yet been able to.
Can anyone help?