[informavoracious]

This is scary. Print no more books, then electronically zap the ones people downloaded. Instant Dark Ages.

[Billthedrill]

Worse even when you consider there is no independent backup permissible at the moment. It's an anti-piracy measure, but it also poses a tremendous vulnerability for the user. It's wonderful that if you destroy your physical Kindle, your entire library is intact and in their hands and you can download it again for free because you've already paid for it. So long as they allow it. And that's the problem.

Mind you, I love my Kindle, and my relations with Amazon customer support have been uniformly excellent. But they hold the keys - that's what you agree to when you read their terms of service. So anything I really care about, I have a dead-tree version.