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In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers (buttondown.com)
submitted 1 month ago by juergen@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/488/

[–] CabbageRelish@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.versobooks.com/

Explicitly lefty publisher, but the ebooks are DRM free and they include them for free alongside any physical purchases. (They do tag the ebooks with your name and email though.)

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once again, "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing."

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago

I always look on itch.io and GoG first!

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recently switched to Kobo as a Kindle alternative, but that also highlighted a problem. Kindle Unlimited includes a TOS for publishers that prevents them from selling their books on any other platform. A significant chunk of the Kindle catalogue is also included in Kindle Unlimited, which means a significant chunk of authors works are locked into the Amazon ecosystem.

It's been very annoying to discover how many book series I've been reading that are simply unavailable elsewhere because they opted to take part in Kindle Unlimited.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has been my issue as well.

And when you sail the high seas to liberate books. You might get the actually book, without issues. You might get a file named your book, that has 17 pages of that book and then the rest is a manual to fix a car.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's an archive of books belonging to a certain anna, which has not failed me yet.

[–] rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is downvoting this?!

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Jeff bezos probably