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Originally Posted by Ron46
Ken- You seem more on top of this than most using Calibre and finding ways to purge DRMs, which you cannot detail for legal reasons. But I was wondering if you have found a way to download and convert, in Calibre perhaps, Kindle editions to be read on the Jetbook in some other format. Amazon should have no issue with this as long as the book is paid for.
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I agree that they should have no issue after the sale, but their use of DRM
indicates that they certainly are taking issue with our use of the ebooks
they sell.
Their DRM comes in two flavors one is not too hard to defeat and one is a
pain. I don't know what the current situation is, but it used to be that the
majority of books being offered were infected with the form of DRM that you
could remove without a lot of effort. If it looks to be an issue I can usually
find the same book available at B&N.
To some extent I think that Amazon is aware that they are loosing sales to
other retailers who offer ebooks with no DRM or looser DRM and that could
be an additional motivation for their drive to sign exclusive contracts with
authors. I doubt that the authors realize such a move will remove them from
the to be read list of most informed readers who are not captured by Amazon.
Luck;
Ken