I'm not defending Amazon, but I thought everyone already knew that Amazon owns the books and the "purchaser of the license" doesn't. Honestly, though, it's a li

I'm not defending Amazon, but I thought everyone already knew that Amazon owns the books and the "purchaser of the license" doesn't. Honestly, though, it's a little suspicious to an automated system for someone to create a new card for each book getting purchased. There is a lot of fraud involved with those cards. Try purchasing a google play card online from Walmart to see what I mean. Recall that Kindle is Amazon's app or device. Kindle uses Amazon's DRM, and Kindle doesn't allow copying of the digital books out of the Amazon ecosystem. The truth is that you don't purchase a Kindle book. You purchase a license to read a Kindle ebook. That ebook gets updated on your device, which might remove your favorite passages. Also, when an author wants, your ebook can even be completely removed. At one point I went into the web inteface to Manage Digital Items and selected several thousand ebooks to download onto my desktop device. Then, after they all downloaded to that device, I created local digital copies as backups of those ebooks, using Calibre. Did you contact Amazon using their live chat in order to explain what happened? Or to ask them how to do what you want? I've found that the people on Amazon's live chat are extremely helpful and always resolve the issue (as long as what I purchased was on Prime or Kindle).