Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th

(goodereader.com)

3 points | by kozmonaut 9 hours ago ago

1 comments

  • dlenski 8 hours ago

    I don't understand the quixotic obsession with fighting e-book copying.

    As with music and movies, it only takes one person to succeed in ripping a non-DRM'ed copy of an ebook before it'll be easy to widely distribute via BitTorrent and similar software.

    Amazon has already discontinued the direct download of (weakly-encrypted) Kindle book files to PCs, and so once Kindle for PC is gone, the cat-and-mouse games will likely move to the e-reader firmware itself.