If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash.Any Kindle book that you “own” can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error.This arrangement is bad for customers, for a number of reasons: But when you “buy” a Kindle book, you’re renting temporary authorization from Amazon to store the book on up to 6 Amazon-approved devices. Wait, though, isn’t Amazon too big to disappear? Maybe. DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers.But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once “too big to fail” American institutions too. As a one-time IT guy at a public university, I frequently battled with DRM-ed written and recorded materials that instructors or researchers wanted to excerpt. DRM-ed Kindle books are incompatible with non-Amazon book readers and software.The worst offender here is DVD region encoding. Sure, Amazon software is supported on most platforms now, but what about a decade from now? How many people still have the equipment to read a floppy disk, VHS tape, phonograph record, or audio cassette? A lot of music, art, and writing is abandoned every time our storage technology changes to a different format, whether you’re talking about reel-to-reel tapes or clay tablets. If it’s important to you, make as many different copies of it as you can stand.īut DRM isn’t going away, so… To Remove the DRM from a Kindle E-Book: ( September 2021: Notes about file formats and “Transfer via USB” option.

The current DeDRM plugin is 7.2.1 as of this update.) ( April 2018: As of version 6.6.0, Apprentice Alf’s DRM removal tools support Amazon’s newer. You’ll also need to install the KFX conversion plugin to import your.

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