Amazon dropping support for more Kindles

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Most people bought many ebooks from Amazon with the idea they were buying a personal copy of the content, a digital version of a paper book. Not that they were paying for a lease that Amazon can terminate.

Paper books are also licenced. You can't give away copies.

KU shouldn't exist in it's present form. Real libraries often also loan ebooks and in UK & Ireland a library must pay for a copy of a book upfront and then pay a publisher agreed per loan/borrow royalty even if it's not read. Amazon in KU pays nothing for the content and invasively tracks your reading progress. Amazon unilaterally decides on pot on money to share per page read in KU.

Amazon by disabling Download in a Browser and then ability to copy by USB is cheating customers. If they still had that (only ended last year) then there would be no need to "support" direct connection of older Kindles.

Is it time for a class action? People have been misled.

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Originally Posted by maddz

I think it's this that's driving the recent changes - if you borrow via KU or similar, download, strip DRM and transfer to a non-Kindle device, the store can't track your reading in order to pay authors. I said last year when downloads were removed that it should only ever have applied to borrows, not sales.

I 100% agree. Given how KU works (and it should not work as it does) it seems odd that Browser download was allowed at all, ever for borrows/loans.

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[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is nothing at all wrong with my Kindle Touch. No reason for Amazon to just drop support for it.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I read with my Libra 2. I don't read with the Kindle Touch.

Maybe Amazon would rather support hardware that their customers read on and tend to take advantage of the Amazon Walled Garden, vs supporting hardware that users mainly/only use for stripping DRM?

[maddz]

Originally Posted by John F

Maybe Amazon would rather support hardware that their customers read on and tend to take advantage of the Amazon Walled Garden, vs supporting hardware that users mainly/only use for stripping DRM?

That means not reading on your computer. That's where DRM can be stripped, not on your non-Kindle e-reader.

[John F]

Originally Posted by maddz

That means not reading on your computer. That's where DRM can be stripped, not on your non-Kindle e-reader.

I would think that Amazon doesn't want to give up on the text book market. I recently rented (lierally) a text book and it was only available for KPC.