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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…

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I download books from my library to my kindle. It goes through Amazon though, so I assume I am also impacted by this BS.
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  It shouldn’t. The DRM is on the Amazon book file format. The books I get from my library are usually epub format.

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