I suppose most people have seen this: theverge.com/news/612898/amazo…

Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB.

^{Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)}