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Originally Posted by Quoth
KU is a streaming service and buying the books supports the Indies far better. All KU ebooks can be bought and that benefits Amazon less than a KU sub.
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Though bought Kindle titles can't be directly downloaded to PC, they are still downloaded locally to the app or kindle, unlike "buying" streaming video content, which is deceptive marketing.
I will stop buying ebooks from Amazon if they can only be read while online.
The Licence (shown on USA on book page and not in EU) is deceptive. You do have the same reading rights for a bought ebook as bought paperback that is in copyright. It's just that the digital file nature rather than a physical artefact makes transfer more difficult. Breaking Amazon's claimed licence would require them to sue you for the losses. If Amazon doesn't have the copyright they likely can do nothing more than close your account, only the copyright holder (or assigned publisher) can sue for copyright violation. Again they have to prove losses.
SO: - Never upload a copyright ebook to the Internet (in theory Send to Kindle – other than for PD titles – violates copyright as Amazon Kindle files can't use it and Cloud storage does too as most will scan content for AI models).
- Remove the DRM
- Make Backups
Without DRM removal and backups you don't really have what you paid for. Copyright, DRM and the USA's malicious DMCA are three separate entities.
DRM is incompatible with Copyright, because usually it doesn't expire.
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I get all of this. But KU is the only way to support these particular authors. My 2yr subscription was purchased prior to the ending of the D&T notice so I feel no need to cancel it. I will not buy books I can’t backup. And yes I know I can still back them up now. But I’m operating from a place that Amazon is going to close that loophole too. I’ve always backed up my books because Amazon screwed me damn near 20yrs ago when the Mobipocket DRM servers got shut off. That moment taught me about DRM and the need to backup books. I have all of my ebooks going back to 1999 when I bought my first ebook from Peanut Press for my Handspring Visor. The only books I don’t have are the 7 Mobipocket books.
I detest Send to Kindle. I only use it for reading articles and fanfic. I only sideload books and comics via USB. And those are things I don’t do often.
I was buying Kindle books long before I ever had a Kindle. I was buying them and converting them to ePub so I could read them on my iPhone and then later on iPad after it debuted. I didn’t get a Kindle until 2019. I specifically chose Amazon as my store because of D&T and how easy it was to bypass the DRM. In fact I got my first Kindle on a whim at a charity rummage sale so I could backup my books the easy way and not have to worry about the Kindle Desktop app updating.
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Originally Posted by haertig
Most of the books I read I bought years ago. I tend to read a book or two at the start of a series, and if I like them, I buy the rest of the series, or at least a few books to move along in the series. I have several partially read series that I go back and forth between, usually switching between series every book or two so I don't get tired of any one series too quickly.
So it's important to me to be able to remove DRM. Because by the time I get around to reading a purchased book, years could have elapsed and my eReader may have bitten the dust and been replaced. I may need to convert the books to a different format because of that. Which means DRM must not be present. So first thing after a book purchase, I strip the DRM and convert and save the book in the two major formats that I use - EPUB and AZW3. I know it is redundant to store them in both formats, but I do that anyway. Disk space is cheap, and eBooks are very small.
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I feel this. I only buy books on sale and sometimes I don’t get to them for years. This is especially true when I buy bundles.