Thread: Can non-DRM ePub books be read on a DRM-ePub device?
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:51 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
wandermaybe, reading non-drm formats is something any device is capable of (although not all kind of formats). What differentiates them is their ability to read books with drm. A big number of readers reads epub-drm and all the Amazon devices read mobi-drm. For legal reasons there is no device that is capable of reading mobi-drm and epub-drm at the same time.
Good point. I'd forgotten about Mobipocket ebooks. Mobipocket (which is owned by Amazon) sells ebooks that can't be read on Kindle. To read them you have to be able to strip the DRM. Why they don't allow their books to be read on Kindle when they are owned by Amazon I don't know. Of course that just applies to their ebooks with a sale price on them. The free ebooks on their site open ok as far as I know.
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