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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Tor gave as reasons for going DRM-free that you can read their ebooks on any of your devices, not just any of your Kindle devices, and being able to move your library from one ereader to another, not just from one Kindle to another.
http://www.torbooks.co.uk/buy-tor-ebooks/
In another article they make it clear that the ability to change formats is one of the benefits of DRM-free:
http://www.tor.com/2013/04/29/tor-bo...ne-year-later/
If the KFX is encrypted then there is no way to change the format to read it on a non-Kindle device. It is clear that when Tor say DRM-free they take that to mean unencrypted too.
(Personally the most important reason for buying DRM-free or removing DRM from ebooks is to be able to edit them to correct the publisher's mistakes, but I guess it is understandable that a publisher is not going to promote that as a reason.) |
I agree, however the only practical way to read Amazon books is either on an Amazon device or with an Amazon app - due to file format rather than DRM.
My point still stands - if you can read the downloaded book on someone else's account it doesn't have DRM, you might not be able to read the book in a text viewer but try that with a Microsoft Word File.
You can't move
any Kindle books to an ePub ereader (Without conversion at least) so the move from ereader to ereader only applies if the new ereader can read the same format.