eBook DRM Debate
Discussions center on Digital Rights Management (DRM) in eBooks from platforms like Amazon Kindle, Apple, and others, including availability of DRM-free options, methods to strip DRM, and user advocacy for DRM-free purchases to ensure true ownership.
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DRM-free eBooks do exist, don't lump them all together!
The books are still DRMd so it's not as crazy as one might expect.
If Kindle, Apple, Google, or Kobo don't use this DRM, who's left? Is there a story here?
They let you download books with no DRM (or with DRM that works with any reader)?
This is correct. My answer is simply to not buy any Kindle books. In the future, I may buy some again if I can strip DRM.
The books you buy on Amazon have Amazon DRM.Unless you strip the DRM, you don't own the books.
Publishers can request DRM-free regime. Tor does on both Amazon and iBooks as a matter of policy, there are others.
Just strip the DRM from your ebooks when you buy them; then nobody can take them away from you.
At least some books mention that "At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied." in the book description field. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-ebook/dp/B0089LOEBS/ref=...
I don't buy DRM-encumbered ebooks. Sorry, Amazon. I buy the hardcopy if there are no DRM-free ebooks.