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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That was amusingly well timed:

[–] ghen 2 points 2 days ago

I've jailbroken every Kindle fire I've ever owned, is this something new?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As it should be.

I don't mind a monopoly on a physical product as long as I can jailbreak it, install my own custom hardware, or modify it however I want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You don't mind the harm to consumers and the anti-competitive results of Amazon establishing a monopoly on e-readers? Interesting take..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Amazon even has a monopoly on e-readers?? I thought that was a more evenly-shared market, with Pocketbook being the most popular, while Boox and others have a sizeable part of the pie. Where I am, Kindles aren't even sold officially, so I don't see them much.