The link below is to an article that looks at the removal of DRM from ebooks.
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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-drm-every-ebook-own/
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DRM Removal
The link below is to an article that takes a look at DRM removal from ebooks.
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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ways-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks/
Ebook Ownership
The link below is to an article that considers the vexing question of ebook ownership.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-biblioracle-0714-20190710-2ykhjy4db5fangevs5ukax2dhm-story.html
Microsoft, DRM and Ebook Rights
The link below is to another article that considers the end of the Microsoft ebook store, DRM and the ebook ownership problem.
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https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/when-our-ebooks-stop-working
The End of the Microsoft Ebook Store
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the end of the Microsoft Ebook store and ponders the curse of DRM.
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https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-ebook-apocalypse-drm/
Kindle’s KFX Format DRM Can Be Removed
The links below are to articles that report on the ability to remove DRM from Kindle’s KFX format.
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– https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/04/16/you-can-now-strip-drm-from-amazons-kindle-kfx-format/
– http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2018/04/14/alfs-drm-removal-tools-now-support-kindles-kfx-format/
Adding a Kindle DRM Removal Plugin to Calibre
The link below is to an article that takes a look at adding a Kindle DRM removal plugin to Calibre.
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http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/06/25/how-add-kindle-drm-removal-plugin-calibre/
DRM is unfortunate, but it’s not the problem in Hachette vs. Amazon
Let me start with the obligatory assurance that I’m no fan of DRM technologies. That’s why I use (illegal) tools to break it if I want to buy an ebook from another retailer and read it on my Kindle(s AMZN). Yet I disagree with author and BoingBoing co-editor Cory Doctorow’s argument that DRM plays a big role in the ongoing dispute between Amazon and book publisher Hachette.
In a column in the Guardian Friday, Doctorow wrote that “because Hachette has been such a staunch advocate of DRM,” it hasn’t been able to take advantage of “a whole range of tactics” that would be available to it if it dropped DRM:
“Amazon’s ebook major competitors – especially Apple and Google – have lots of market clout, and their customers are already carrying around ebook readers (tablets and phones). Hachette could easily play hardball with Amazon by taking out an ad campaign whose message…
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Digital Rights Management
The link below is to an article that takes a look at DRM (Digital Rights Management) in the real world.
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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management
The DRM dilemma facing the open web
Most of us are pretty used to certain freedoms granted by the open web. Just as you can send a link for any webpage or service to a friend, you can also save an image from a page, examine its code or copy some text to quote in something you’re writing. That way of doing things may be set to change.
The blogs of large corporations are rarely worth reading unless you’re a journalist or a fan of marketing content, but on Wednesday Telefonica(s tef)’s blog carried an interesting article by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that formalizes new web standards.
The piece sums up all the different meanings of the word “open” in the context of the web, data, platforms and so on. It’s a pretty good primer on this stuff, so much of which…
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