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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 139 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The optimist in me says they're doing this to avoid piracy.

The pessimist in me says they're doing this so they can purge books because of the Trump administration.

Either way, I can't say I'm a fan.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The optimist in me says they’re doing this to avoid piracy.

    Won’t pirates just buy their source copies on a different platform, so now Amazon loses the original sale as well?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    The "original sale" in that case is not even pennies. So... not sure why amazon would care?

    Also: Many smaller authors basically depend on kindle because of the ease of use of the web portal and incentives to do larger discounts for their audiences. One of my favorite guilty pleasures has talked about exactly this (although he IS investigating alternatives).

    And, much like with video games: The Sandersons of the world will be pirated. MAYBE a Dalglish will be too. But nobody cares enough to go after a Samphire or Shel.

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