Thread: Amazon and DRM changes
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Old 01-19-2023, 06:19 AM   #595
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
What I find weird is that people recommend Kobo because you can easily decrypt the books from the device and don't have to bother with Adobe Digital Editions, but then again they put themselves into a situation where it would be quite easy for Kobo to push an update to their supported devices that just fixes the DRM scheme.

If DRM-free is your goal it's not that smart to put all your eggs in the basket of any vendor that has full control over their eco-system. If "but Kobo has ADE downloads on their website" is your backup then I'd recommend buying somewhere else because Kobo puts DRM on books that are sold somewhere else without it.
Kobo has supported non-Kobo devices since before they were called Kobo. While it be easy for them to change their DRM I think if they tried to remove ADE downloads without fair warning they could end up in a pickle with non-Kobo device havers.

With Amazon they've never supported a non-Amazon device/app so they can pretty much do whatever whenever.
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