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Originally Posted by forcheville
Without DRM it is a jungle and you have no way of tracing through whose hands the file has passed before reaching you. Files which have had DRM removed have by that very fact been handled by dishonest agents. Opening an epub in Sigil can give you some clues as to an audit trail, but not much detail on possible edits.
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DRM is no indication, other than the incidental fact that most major publishers insist on it, and I would trust Penguin Classics over "Random Dude Selling a Book on Amazon". Anyone who sells a book on Amazon can put DRM on their book - it's irrelevant to this because the concern some have is that
those individuals might change the contents.
There are also legitimate ebooks for sale at major retailers with NO DRM. It is by no means an indication of handling by "dishonest agents".
It is DRM that makes it
possible for those individuals to swap out the version, provided you allow the update. (Speaking specifically to Amazon's practices here, where they notify you of an update, they don't automatically send it.) If I were to take the DRM off of my purchased books, I could stop an edited version from replacing it. I could even have them both and compare them.