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Re:Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API by fishywang on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:29PM (#26051496)
So one thing I know is that for all the books by John Scalzi, their listings on Google Play Books have a note of:

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
(see https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_Scalzi_Old_... for an example)

And indeed once you purchased his books you can download a DRM-free epub or pdf file of the book you purchased and use any tool you like to read it.

I don't see similar note on the listings of his books on Kindle store, so my _guess_ would be that Amazon is unwilling do fulfill this request from the author, but I could be wrong (I never owned any kindle device anyways).

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Re:Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API by SecurityLagoon on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:21PM (#26056860)
The Kindle store doesn't make it obvious if something is DRM free anymore. The most obvious way is that DRM free books will usually list the number of simultaneous devices as unlimited while DRM books will not. Happy to be corrected if there is a nicer way of telling.
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