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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

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It’s needless friction that depends on people having an outdated cable laying around to access what they paid for so yeah, it’s “pretty bad” lmao

All these companies have spent roughly 2 decades making everything wireless where possible and then Amazon turns around and goes “oh wait let’s go back to cables now that no one has them so people re-purchase out of frustration”

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You think no one has USB cables?