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Originally Posted by justapuppy
Hi there, daft question (potentially). Why do you want DRM-free books? I'm wondering if it's about converting kindle files to epub or something?
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Not all devices support the drm format (plus reasons others have already given, such as a company going out of business or taking their drm servers offline). So for example if I buy a book from amazon I can read it without issue on my iPad, phone and computers but if I want to also read it on my hanlin eink device i'm stuck unless the drm is removed first ( even though the device has support for the ebook format). It's nice amazon support a wide range of devices, but they'll never be able to support them all which is why standards were invented, drm breaks that.
One of the reasons i'm glad the Harry potter books are supposed to be shipping with just social drm is that it means I can used whichever device I want and if I buy a new incompatible device, convert the ebook to the new format.
When buying, It's a good bet that all ebooks will have drm unless it explicitly says otherwise. Drm is so common atm that it's a selling point to not have it
if in doubt though, contact the company, tell them which books you want to buy but that you want to know if they have drm before you make a purchase.