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DRM is a sweet poison. It is definitely good for the companies producing content and encourages investment, but it offers no long term provisions for the survival of the content itself. When amazon goes bankrupt all of my ebooks in their format, in their reader will be gone forever.

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That's why I refused to buy Kindle books as long as I didn't have a good way of adding them DRM-free to my Calibre library.

I do buy Kindle books now.

What is funny is that there are Kindle books on Amazon that you cannot read on your eInk Kindle!

For example, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forcing-London-Mathematical-Society... has as its format "Print Replica", which I like for math books as they are basically just high-quality PDFs. But you cannot download it to a Kindle Oasis, for example! Funnily, after you remove the DRM, it just becomes a PDF, and you CAN download it to the Kindle Oasis.

That's just ridiculous.

This is an interesting point. Is there a legal notion of 'perpetuality' for creative works? Would it be better if Amazon was seen as the current custodian rather than absolute owner? More like an art gallery.

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