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Recent Changes to Kindle for PC/Kindle for Mac Once a book has been downloaded with the new scheme, it's IMPOSSIBLE to re-download using the old scheme (without buying it again).īut otherwise, if your ebook is from Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble or any of the ebook stores selling ebooks compatible with Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1, you should be able to remove the DRM that's been applied to your ebooks. While major ebook stores aren't using the new scheme yet, using ADE 2.0.1 will ensure that your ebooks are downloaded using the old scheme. ADE 3.0 and later might use a new encryption scheme that the tools can't handle.

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Do NOT use Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 or later to download your ePubs.

Authors need to sell books to be able to write more books.

You must not use these tools to give your ebooks to a hundred of your closest friends.

You must own the ebook - the tools won't work on library ebooks or rented ebooks or books from a friend.

For example, they don't work on any ebooks from Apple's iBooks store.

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There are a few, uh, provisos, a, a couple of quid pro quos. Just download and use these tools, that's all! Uh, almost. Longer term, you can never be sure that you'll be able to come back and re-read your ebooks if they have DRM, even if you save back-up copies. preventing the use of text-to-speech software. DRM also allows publishers to restrict what you can do with the ebook you've bought, e.g. Kindle KF8 to Kobo ePub), so you are restricted in the range of ebook stores you can use. When your ebooks have DRM you are unable to convert the ebook from one format to another (e.g.

Why would I want to remove DRM from my ebooks? What's DRM?ĭRM ("Digital Rights Management") is a way of using encryption to tie the books you've bought to a specific device or to a particular piece of software.

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Providing free open source tools to remove DRM from your ebooks. No thanks to Amazon for continuing to be a jerk.Overview What's this repository all about?

“Never trust Amazon search,” and Amazon programmer told me. As we speak, Amazon is busy strong-arming the larger publishers to pay it to give their books more publicity, which of course means that everyone else’s books gets less visibility and may disappear altogether for search results. They also want to squeeze publishers and authors from another direction. Amazon does nothing but pocket 65% of the retail price for an credit card transaction and file download that costs it pennies. That’s not much better than the 25% that’s the ebook standard for traditional publishers and those publishers edit, proof, layout and market an ebook. Who else has an entire organization dedicated to criticizing them?Īnd for what? Amazon pays the worst royalties in the ebook industry, just 35% on ebooks retailing outside the $2.99 to $9.99 range that they have fixed at the ‘proper’ price for ebooks.

Amazon does seem intent on become replacing Comcast as the most hated company in America-at least among writers. If we want to create the KF8 equivalent of fixed-layout, they expect us to pay some large sum to a third-pary company. They won’t spend money, so all of us get stuck with spending more time that we ought creating Kindle books. Reminds me of baby chickens: “cheep, cheep, cheep.”Įven worse, they haven’t updated their InDesign plug-in or helped Adobe create one for us. It’s by far the ugliest thing on my Mac.Īmazon is the biggest retailer and the largest seller of ebooks on the planet and yet all they give for previewing is a dreadful Java app. Rotten, now I won’t have an excuse not to look at that vile Java app.