Nontrivial powers of the exceptional line bundle of a point blowup ($[E{]}^{\otimes r}\text{ is trivial}⟺r=0$)

For the blowup of a complex manifold at a point in dimension $n\ge 2$, the exceptional divisor is ${\mathbb{CP}}^{n-1}$ and $[E]{|}_E={\mathcal{O}}_E(-1)$. The local blowup is the total space of the tautological line bundle, so its zero section has that normal bundle. Restricting a power to a projective line inside $E$ gives degree $-r$; a trivial bundle has degree zero. This proves that no nonzero power of $[E]$ is trivial, without assuming global projectivity of the original manifold.