[notatoad]

send to kindle requires that you connect your kindle to the cloud, which gives it a chance to sync up all the data the device has collected while it has been offline.

it seems pretty clear that's what's really important to them - they want all that sweet sweet telemetry, and could care less whether you're actually buying the books or not.

[pezdeath]

That and they’d rather the small % of users that use the kindle for piracy keep doing that vs going to another ecosystem