Kindle version 1.17 pc4/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Sure, Amazon software is supported on most platforms now, but what about a decade from now? How many people still have the equipment to read a floppy disk, VHS tape, phonograph record, or audio cassette? A lot of music, art, and writing is abandoned every time our storage technology changes to a different format, whether you're talking about reel-to-reel tapes or clay tablets. DRM-ed Kindle books are incompatible with non-Amazon book readers and software.The worst offender here is DVD region encoding. As a one-time IT guy at a public university, I frequently battled with DRM-ed written and recorded materials that instructors or researchers wanted to excerpt. DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers.But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once 'too big to fail' American institutions too. ![]() Wait, though, isn't Amazon too big to disappear? Maybe. If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash.Any Kindle book that you 'own' can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error. ![]()
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