Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days agoEven after years and years of this being discussed, it shocks me how many people keep dropping money into services which force them to own nothing.
Convenience is a helluva drug.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It depends, sometimes you can “buy” digital ownership from these places in the form of DRM-free files. If you are able to download the DRM-free file and make a reliable backup of it, then I could call that actual ownership. This is how I approach my music and ebook libraries. I don’t do subscriptions for streaming anything but TV.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
True, though such services are in the extreme minority at this point.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bandcamp is great for music downloads