Amazon Changing Access Methods To Your Kindle Book Library – Report

 Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows downloading files to your computer.

Users have until Feb. 27 to download copies of books they have purchased to their computers, according to a ZDNet report. 

After that date, Amazon will remove your ability to download books into files that you control.

The warning is buried inside a three-dot menu accessed by clicking “Download” next to a book. Amazon has long maintained that your accessed is merely licensed, something that can be changed or revoked. 

Amazon previously has manipulated Kindle files on its devices, deleting Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984.”  It has also altered copy to more politically correct terms, including Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

The implications of such manipulations are clear and frightening to literature and politics. Given such control, history can be altered or erased.