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Originally Posted by Sirtel
With books, there's no guarantee that particular version of DRM will be broken; it might be a different method entirely, or none. Anyway, personally I wouldn't buy books with unbroken DRM at all rather than pin my hopes on some future solution that might or might not come to pass.
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Indeed, my thoughts exactly.
So right now, I have stopped purchasing from Amazon, though supposedly I can still remove DRM via Kindle For PC, or some other convoluted method I read the other day. It seems likely that Kindle For PC will soon go the way of the Dodo anyway.
I do follow a few authors that only provide their ebooks via Amazon, so I will eventually have to face up to that, which will likely be bad news for those authors.
A couple of them do provide DRM-Free sometimes, but as Amazon makes that impossible to check before buying, that would mean taking a risk.
I should contact those authors, and try to convince them to use Kobo or get them to guarantee DRM-Free.
Having talked to some of them before though, they feel Kindle Unlimited is a necessary evil for enough exposure, which I kind of understand, as it is mostly hard to make a living being a writer.
One author actually made his latest release available via his website, the week before its public release, then stopped that on release due to KU requirements. Be great if more did that, but you have to be willing to pay the asking price, and also be in the know.