On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.
C’mon United States, do the anti-trust thing! You used to be so good at it!
Did they? There have been a few cases, sure, but in general they’ve not been good in this regard.