Kindle Swindle
Oh Amazon. You've finally gone too far. Your horrible business practices have forces me to quit using your services.
For years I've been a happy user of eReaders and thus eBooks. For years I did not mind getting them from an evil corporation bent on the destruction of the book selling industry.
I used to download the eBooks from Amazon, and converted them to generic epubs without awful digital rights management (managing your rights away), so I had ownership of my purchases, making them invisible to Amazon's dirty hands.
Sadly, in 2025 Amazon started along the path of making their eBooks completely unworkable. They removed any possibilities of downloading books, making standard ownership impossible. You can now only read them in their proprietary format on their proprietary devices. This leads to books being worse quality, and lots of problems reading them on those devices.
So I've decided to stop using Amazon as a source for books. It's sad, because they already killed off most of the competition in the eBook space. Lots of books are only available on Amazon. But it's a small price to pay for being able to cut loose from such a destructive company.
It is still possible to get eBooks without DRM, or with less destructive DRM. Try your local bookshop, or national booksellers. It's time to fight back and leave Amazon behind.