Sadly, I would be glad to pay a reasonable price for books without DRM, but my options are still quite limited. I've been waiting patiently for Tor's ebook store to open (promised "by the end of summer 2012"). Baen is fine for a couple genres, but I don't trust Smashwords because of sockpuppet reviews. I don't want to pirate, I am glad to give authors their fair share.
How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
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Re: How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
#12Since I disapprove of Amazon's DRM policy, the only books on my kindle are tech books from O'Reilly (DRM-free) and fiction from Project Gutenburg (DRM-free)
I know I could download ebooks from Amazon and just remove their DRM, but I think it's better to vote with my wallet.
After all, they sell the Kindle at cost and rely on you buying books from them to make any profit. So don't buy their books and maybe they'll learn..
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What a confusing website. After they get your email via google login you can DL a 'trial' .chm file. Full books cost "coins" Looks like a pirate site that sells other people's content for "coins".
One does not need to login, search bar at top of main page when not logged in, downloads are all direct and free!
You're right. It DL .chm files that are complete. However, it is a pirate website. If you really like the authors you shouldn't mind paying for it. If they don't offer a DRM-free book, well you can buy the DRM book and get your backup right here it seems.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
One does not need to login, search bar at top of main page when not logged in, downloads are all direct and free!
You're right. It DL .chm files that are complete. However, it is a pirate website. If you really like the authors you shouldn't mind paying for it. If they don't offer a DRM-free book, well you can buy the DRM book and get your backup right here it seems.
Of course one can pay, build a large collection and have it all yanked away at a whim > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392
Pirates on the other hand offer a much nicer service that works and doesnt treat customers like crap, maybe the publishing industry can learn from them
Anyways this site and many others are busy stripping DRM of ebooks and making it free to download for all!
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#15Sadly, I would be glad to pay a reasonable price for books without DRM, but my options are still quite limited. I've been waiting patiently for Tor's ebook store to open (promised "by the end of summer 2012"). Baen is fine for a couple genres, but I don't trust Smashwords because of sockpuppet reviews. I don't want to pirate, I am glad to give authors their fair share.
Baen also has a problem with OCR'd text. I downloaded a Greg Bear book from them a few weeks ago and it was clearly OCR'd without a second look towards quality. It had so many typos and spelling errors that it was practically unreadable. I returned it for a refund.
To be fair Amazon also has this problem. It's hard being an ebook consumer when 90% of books either have DRM or are unreadably OCR'd.
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#16The Wired link adds nothing. They link to (http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/ebooks-formats...)
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#17Any good command line tool for doing this?
They are included in the tools zip
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#18The real problem is there is nothing that requires companies to provide continued access to DRM-encumbered media; they can turn it off whenever they want.
In my opinion, if a company can't or won't provide a way for a customer to access their purchased files, then they should be required by law to provide a way for the customer to un-DRM those files.
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#19Since I disapprove of Amazon's DRM policy, the only books on my kindle are tech books from O'Reilly (DRM-free) and fiction from Project Gutenburg (DRM-free) I know I could download ebooks from Amazon and just remove their DRM, but I think it's better to vote with my wallet. After all, they sell the Kindle at cost and rely on you buying books from them to make any profit. So don't buy their books and maybe they'll lea…
Some books on Amazon are DRM free. The publisher is the one who decides if they want to use it.
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#20Checkout http://coinread.com where one can download thousands of ebooks (DRM removed, scanned etc)
All you do is spam this site, and half the comments under this are obvious sock puppets of yours. Why are you not banned yet?