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Doesn't Amazon let you re-download your books on your kindle? That's a little different than photos in that once the photo is gone, you don't have the opportun

Doesn't Amazon let you re-download your books on your kindle? That's a little different than photos in that once the photo is gone, you don't have the opportunity to capture it again.

calcifer 7y ago
Assuming Amazon doesn't just decide to delete it [1], sure. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
- bduerst 7y ago
  Seems that those books were added to the store by a company that didn't have the rights. I'm not sure that's a widespread problem.
  - calcifer 7y ago
    I'm not sure the distinction is relevant. The fact is, Amazon can and will remove your books at any time and there is nothing you can do about it.
    - bduerst 7y ago
      Right, but in setting a pattern of behavior that they will remove books whenever they want, Amazon only seems to do it when there are bad actors involved.
cjsawyer 7y ago
My concern with this thought is that eventually any company will shut down or stop supporting whatever service I’m using.
dunnevens 7y ago
Some books with Amazon's DRM have a limit on the number of devices it can be used with. Sometimes the limit is very low, such as only 1 or 2 devices. This makes it difficult to re-download some books. I've run into this, especially with science or reference books. And was impossible to fix on my own because the original download was to an old Kindle that's now sitting in a box somewhere in the garage, or to the Kindle app on an old phone that's no longer in my possession. I suppose that could be fixed with a call to Amazon's customer service who could probably de-register those old devices in their system. But who wants to deal with that? Every book I've ever bought from Amazon has been cracked and backed up. I had been willing to put up with the DRM. Didn't want to go to the hassle of re-downloading and processing hundreds of books. But when I ran into the "This book has reached its license limit and cannot be downloaded", that was the last straw.

Doesn't Amazon let you re-download your books on your kindle? That's a little different than photos in that once the photo is gone, you don't have the opportunity to capture it again.

calcifer 7y ago

Assuming Amazon doesn't just decide to delete it [1], sure. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...

bduerst 7y ago
Seems that those books were added to the store by a company that didn't have the rights. I'm not sure that's a widespread problem.
- calcifer 7y ago
  I'm not sure the distinction is relevant. The fact is, Amazon can and will remove your books at any time and there is nothing you can do about it.
  - bduerst 7y ago
    Right, but in setting a pattern of behavior that they will remove books whenever they want, Amazon only seems to do it when there are bad actors involved.

cjsawyer 7y ago

My concern with this thought is that eventually any company will shut down or stop supporting whatever service I’m using.

dunnevens 7y ago

Some books with Amazon's DRM have a limit on the number of devices it can be used with. Sometimes the limit is very low, such as only 1 or 2 devices. This makes it difficult to re-download some books. I've run into this, especially with science or reference books. And was impossible to fix on my own because the original download was to an old Kindle that's now sitting in a box somewhere in the garage, or to the Kindle app on an old phone that's no longer in my possession. I suppose that could be fixed with a call to Amazon's customer service who could probably de-register those old devices in their system. But who wants to deal with that? Every book I've ever bought from Amazon has been cracked and backed up. I had been willing to put up with the DRM. Didn't want to go to the hassle of re-downloading and processing hundreds of books. But when I ran into the "This book has reached its license limit and cannot be downloaded", that was the last straw.