Just because you can download your purchased ebooks now doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to download them in ten or twenty years.Ģ022. Twenty years from now, how will ebooks be treated in both respects? With digital media, things are constantly changing. Changing formats and enhancing DRM schemes is going to be the norm moving forward in the ebook world.
It’s not a good sign for ebook buyers and some view it as just another way for Amazon to impose control over content purchased from them. The reason the Kindle for PC and Mac applications have to be updated is because they’ve made it so newer ebooks can only be downloaded in Amazon’s KFX format instead of Amazon’s older Kindle formats. Kindle for PC update is required to download newer eBooksĪmazon is now requiring Kindle for PC and Mac users to install an update in order to download and read any new Kindle ebooks published as of January 3rd, 2023.
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