Originally posted on local.general. Thank you xwindows for informing me
that only propagates to tilde.club and tilde.meta was the better fit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/hurry-download-your-kindle-ebooks-before-amazon-won-t-let-you-anymore/ar-AA1zjZit

As someone who has a deep enjoyment of ereaders and ebooks because of
just how many books you can stuff in a small space? I'm kinda surprised
amazon hasn't done this sooner. Given trends of no longer hiding it and
being out and out with 'you own nothing.'

I'm in the process of cleaning up the backup copies of my kindle
library I've pieced together from here and there and combined it with
the magpie's nest of collected this and that in my calibre horde.

This whole business annoys me, because. Well.

Beyond sheer principle?

Do I even need a reason to be irritated even if this was an inevitable?

I abandoned barns and noble years ago because, put bluntly, their
e-readers were garbage. However they were pretty front and center about
making sure their books were in epub. i like epub. Epub is nice, it's
open.

Addition:
I am seeing conflicting reports that download over wifi will still be a
thing, but for me that does not matter as 'eventually this too shall
pass.' Perhaps a bit alarmist. Perhaps not. I have the library I have
curated slowly for twentyish years backed up in a few spots and had
been told that I was being an alarmist. Well, this is one of those
instances where I hate being right.

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Andrew Singleton <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

Originally posted on local.general. Thank you xwindows for informing me
that only propagates to tilde.club and tilde.meta was the better fit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/hurry-download-your-kindle-ebooks-before-amazon-won-t-let-you-anymore/ar-AA1zjZit

As someone who has a deep enjoyment of ereaders and ebooks because of
just how many books you can stuff in a small space? I'm kinda surprised amazon hasn't done this sooner. Given trends of no longer hiding it and
being out and out with 'you own nothing.'

I'm in the process of cleaning up the backup copies of my kindle
library I've pieced together from here and there and combined it with
the magpie's nest of collected this and that in my calibre horde.

This whole business annoys me, because. Well.

Beyond sheer principle?

Do I even need a reason to be irritated even if this was an inevitable?

I abandoned barns and noble years ago because, put bluntly, their
e-readers were garbage. However they were pretty front and center about making sure their books were in epub. i like epub. Epub is nice, it's
open.

Addition:
I am seeing conflicting reports that download over wifi will still be a thing, but for me that does not matter as 'eventually this too shall
pass.' Perhaps a bit alarmist. Perhaps not. I have the library I have
curated slowly for twentyish years backed up in a few spots and had
been told that I was being an alarmist. Well, this is one of those
instances where I hate being right.

Yeah, bigtech is always bigego.

I am a book writer myself, I wonder, do you know of any other place
besides Amazon, which is the go-to place if Amazon Kindle Publishing
fails? (and is failing alright).

Important, a new place where book writers can get paid and exposed to a
big audience.
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This seems like a potential:
https://bookshop.org/

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:02:01 +0000
keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I am a book writer myself, I wonder, do you know of any other place
besides Amazon, which is the go-to place if Amazon Kindle Publishing
fails? (and is failing alright).

Important, a new place where book writers can get paid and exposed to
a big audience.

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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:02:01 +0000
keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I am a book writer myself, I wonder, do you know of any other place
besides Amazon, which is the go-to place if Amazon Kindle Publishing
fails? (and is failing alright).

Important, a new place where book writers can get paid and exposed to
a big audience.

Andrew Singleton <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

This seems like a potential:
https://bookshop.org/

Will look. Thanks!
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