The document discusses the long-term preservation challenges of the Kindle ebook platform and proprietary file formats. It notes that Kindle ebooks are not standalone objects and rely on Amazon's infrastructure for access, including their proprietary file formats and Whispernet network. Conversion to new formats is not a perfect solution and there are questions around how to preserve self-published Kindle titles long-term and what exactly needs preserved from Amazon's ebook platform as technologies change.

1. 1984 Redux: The long-
term materiality of the
Kindle infrastructure
Simon Rowberry
University of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry

6. An ebook is not an object

7. The Kindle as Platform

8. Proprietary file
formats

9. Conversion is
not a solution

10. Whispernet

12. Email from Amazon

13. Preservation?

14. But what about self-published titles

15. What needs to be preserved?

16. Parikka & Hertz’s Zombie Media

17. 1984 Redux: The long-
term materiality of the
Kindle infrastructure
Simon Rowberry
University of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry