On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.

  • @cley_fayeEnglish
    13•3 days ago

    Locked-in platform closing the door. How surprising.

    Accepting DRM in the first place is the problem. Hard to avoid, but still. I just got a boox; great value, can’t use adobe DRM. Didn’t have any problem there. Of course, money is going everywhere except big “publishers”, but that’s hardly an issue; they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.

    • Rowan ThorpeEnglish
      9•3 days ago

      they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.

      Ooh, this is very pithy. I like it. I will use it.