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Originally Posted by drizzle
If I buy an ebook from amazon is the ebook protected or can I still convert the ebook? I would like to be able to keep a copy of my purchased books on my desktop. Does amazon let you do this? I had thought that amazon didn't let people save a copy of their purchases directly to their computer, but I could be and hopefully am wrong.
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The easiest way to save copies of your purchases to your PC is to use the Kindle for PC (windows) or Kindle for Mac software provided you use one of those OS's.
As for if books are protected I assume you mean DRM. DRM protection is up to the publisher (most of the big publishers insist on it), but yes Amazon offers DRM just like every other major book store. What many do is remove the DRM (whether from Amazon or elsewhere) and save backup copies of their books (Google for Apprentice Alf as we can't discuss how here).
Converting Amazon books to ePub or ePub books to Amazon (mobi/azw or azw3) takes a matter of seconds usually when DRM is gone. Note (an exception): There are occasionally books from Amazon in a format known as Topaz. These are more of a challenge to convert to ePub, but thankfully are becoming a small minority of what are offered.