Amazon confirmed the removal of the book download feature in a statement to The Verge. “Customers can continue reading books ...

Amazon has long offered a “Download & transfer via USB” option for your purchases. That option was removed for the most recent generation of Kindles, and is going away for old models on February 26.

Later this week, Amazon is closing a small loophole that allowed purchasers of Kindle books to download those files to a computer and transfer them via USB. Originally intended to extend e-book ...

side-load onto another e-reader not manufactured by Amazon. What does this mean, though? Let’s break it down. The “Download and Transfer via USB” function has been around nearly as long as ...