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Originally Posted by Dropout
I'm fairly certain Amazon will always know what books you purchased, and should they change their format or get rid of DRM (and they are slowly loosening their grip), they would offer your books in that format. It's in their best interest to give as much support to the customer as possible. And if they support a new format, there is no reason their products wouldn't either.
There is no reason to think your purchases on Amazon would suddenly not be available anymore just because they don't support the amz format. Could you imagine the backlash?
Now should Amazon somehow go out of business (unlikely), it also wouldn't surprise me if, legally or illegally, a tool to crack the DRM wasn't made. But I don't see that happening. At worst they'd be taken over by another business and support for e-books would continue.
As for the convenience now, that's a very good reason.
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It has happened before. I personally don't trust anyone to manage/maintain my stuff. If I can't strip drm off such that I can store, manage, backup, convert etc. then I'm not buying their books.