Thread: Kindle has new a DRM scheme?
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Old 05-02-2017, 04:35 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by MoeReed View Post
I know I am late to the party here, but I just discovered this problem last week. Amazon's new scheme completely locks you into their reader and their software. They make it impossible to read your books in any other reader (and this includes free books that previously had no DRM, such as those out of copyright). This is analogous to buying music in some proprietary unconvertable azm3 format that can only be played on the distributor's hardware and software. Evil.
Have you read the sticky post at the top of the forum on the topic? The first post outlines possible solutions / work arounds.

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