As this story reports, "Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB." This essentially locks readers into the Amazon ecosystem, and means essentially that you aren't buying the books, you're only accessing them on loan. Amazon can take them back whenever they want, as they did George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, or change the content, as they did Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If you bought into the Kindle ecosystem, now is the time to download your eBooks, before they're deleted or censored. I might own one or two Kindle books - as I recall I bought Audrey Watters's book - but did not invest into the ecosystem.
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