Yep. I used to be able to buy an amazon kindle book. Download it, crack it, then read on any non-kindle device I had.

Now they don’t let us download the books. So now I won’t buy anymore kindle books. :)

Are you telling me that Jeffrey Bezos is INTENTIONALLY attracting billions of customers with cheap stuff and then starts closing down his ecosystem? Why would he do that?!

To quote a post from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155

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There have been several threads about this on HN over the past few days and months. Just to avoid the confusion that seems to follow these, a few notes:

(1) This is the “Download and Transfer” option where Amazon allowed users to select books they had purchased a license to and download them from the Amazon website.

(2) The ability to transfer books from your computer to your Kindle using a USB cable is not affected.

(3) The ability to send non-Amazon-licensed ePubs using the Send to Kindle email feature is not affected.

Still seems pretty bad though