It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM

Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by the__alchemist on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:21PM (#37937948)

FYSA for anyone used to this: It doesn't work on Amazon books published in 2023+.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by themadturk on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:23PM (#37937959)

Yeah, this is what made me abandon Amazon for Kobo.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by larme on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:31PM (#37938010)

It think this should still work for Kobo ebook?

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by themadturk on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:35PM (#37938035)

Kobo books use a completely different DRM, Adobe Digital Editions. It is apparently easier to strip DRM from these books than from Amazon.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by piperswe on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:44PM (#37938090)

Doesn't it still work if you download the book file for a Kindle from the website, then plug your Kindle serial number into DeDRM?

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by izacus on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:36AM (#37938482)

They've been closing down those loopholes over the years.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by marcus_holmes on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:48PM (#37938123)

Easy: stop buying books from Amazon

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by pjmlp on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:12AM (#37939953)

Doesn't help when the alternative is to buy on paper, and it is a 1000 page tome.

Even on IT related ebooks, some authors only publish their ebooks on Amazon.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by m463 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:24AM (#37938370)

I thought this was just kindle unlimited books, not purchased books.

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by ptman on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:45AM (#37938552)

Are you sure? https://epubor.com/drm-removal-tools-for-amazon-kindle-azw-e...

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by snailmailman on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:38AM (#37938897)

There are workarounds for this change now. I don’t remember the details, but there is a way to strip drm from 2023 books. It’s a relatively recent development I think. Did not even require a physical kindle. (I think for a while the only method did require one)

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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by criddell on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:04AM (#37940725)

The workaround for a while was to have an old version of the Kindle for PC software on your computer and download the flies from there. You would get older versions that had crackable DRM.

They’ve pretty much closed this loophole. IIRC now you need an older physical Kindle that doesn’t support KFX files and you can download files for that device.

It’s still a crappy workaround because the older file format doesn’t have any of the latest typography features.

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