[thimabi]

You make an interesting point. Maybe facilitating the usage of sideloaded books is not among Amazon’s priorities. Yet I don’t know how much of that comes from malice rather than simply negligence or lack of interest.

[mcmcmc]

It’s directly against their priority of influencing you to only purchase ebooks through their monopoly. Whether anti-competitive, anti-user practices are malicious or just a consequence of capitalism run wild, I don’t think there’s much of a difference

[cowsandmilk]

Most likely, it is something they don’t test because it isn’t officially supported.

[mcmcmc]

Right. And it’s not officially supported because they are incentivized not to support it.

[pbhjpbhj]

It seems a stretch to imagine that the dev team don't sideload books themselves. Of course that wouldn't be official testing, ...