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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by bo1024 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:47AM (#19571017)
One thing I got confused about was where they actually sell these DRM-free ebooks. (Apparently not on their website.) I went out on a limb and bought some Tor books from ebooks.com and they did turn out to be DRM-free, but there was no way to tell in advance.
Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by jamesgeck0 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:48AM (#19572948)
Tor's Kindle books are also DRM free, although IIRC the process of exporting the DRM free files outside the Kindle app is somewhat non-intuitive.
Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by WorldMaker on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:38PM (#19575007)
Thanks to lawyer back and forth Amazon now has an explicit note on Tor (and Baen and a few other similar publisher titles) making it clear that the file is DRM free at publisher request. It seems like funny language in Amazon's store pages because it sounds like they are treating it like a book defect the way it is written, but the bonus is that you can look for that "warning"/"acknowledgment" when you want that best of both worlds situation where you want to get Kindle features on a book but support a DRM-free publisher over alternatives.