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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Amazon allows purchasing e-books on their platform, and with their download and transfer feature it | Amazon allows purchasing e-books on their platform, and with their download and transfer feature it allows users to locally store purchased e-books on your computer as a backup. It also enables customers that bought e-books from Amazon to convert them to other formats and read them on other e-readers (although this sometimes requires removing [[Digital rights management|DRM]] first). | ||
Amazon Kindle e-readers use a proprietary format, while many other e-readers use the more open EPUB format so users have to convert e-books in their Kindle library to use them with other devices. Also, newer Kindles use the KFX format, which makes it almost impossible to remove DRM. This means that people with newer Kindles have to use download and transfer to download the e-books in the older AZW3 format. | |||
Without the feature to download your purchased e-books, customers are restricted from moving from Amazon to another e-book platform, since they wouldn't be able to keep the e-books they purchased on Amazon. | |||
==Removal of download and transfer via USB== | ==Removal of download and transfer via USB== | ||
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This change has several implications for Kindle customers:<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1inr9uy/fyi_amazon_is_removing_download_transfer_option</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoCzeGnIss</ref> | This change has several implications for Kindle customers:<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1inr9uy/fyi_amazon_is_removing_download_transfer_option</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoCzeGnIss</ref> | ||
*This new policy makes it much harder to read purchased e-books on devices other than Kindle e-readers | *This new policy makes it much harder to read purchased e-books on devices other than Kindle e-readers | ||
*This new policy requires customers to have an internet connection on the e-reader to download books they purchase through the Kindle platform | *This new policy requires customers to have an internet connection on the e-reader to download books they purchase through the Kindle platform | ||