<html><head></head><body>Both Amazon and Kobo (Rakuten) sell DRM-free e-media. It largely depends on the publisher. Both online stores specify whether or not the item you're buying has DRM or not.<br>
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-Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 29, 2017 1:00:57 AM CDT, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2017-06-28 Tim Lavoie wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> One question now though, can you still buy DRM-free eBooks? What you<br /> bought directly from them was unsoiled, but I think everything<br /> through Amazon or Kobo was DRM-infested.<br /></blockquote><br />I'll never buy digital from Amazon so I'm not sure, but I think that Az<br />is DRM-only and can only be read with Kindle or an Az app or a specific<br />Az web page (though I could be wrong). I'm sure some MUUGer has bought<br />Az digital books and can enlighten us further.<br /><br />(BTW, Kobo is tied to Indigo/Chapter's competing device/format,<br />completely incompatible with Az's Kindle.)<br /><br /><br />Further to my other post, here's some more info on the ORM change:<br /><br />Official explanation: (disappointed this isn't Tim writing this)<br /><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too">https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too</a><br /><br />Pages and pages of angry user comments:<br /><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659462">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659462</a><br /><br />Oh ya, and it seems that the biggest loss here is that never again can<br />one get a PDF format ORM title. It's toast, kaput. I tried all the<br />formats I could use to read my digitally-bought ORM titles and finally<br />settled on using PDF exclusively as it's the only format I could<br />stomach. The others just stunk when it came to layout/formatting and<br />images/figures. And their page numbers never made any sense. With the<br />PDF I knew I was looking at exactly what the printed book looked like.<br />Only on my phone would I touch any other format (epub usually), because<br />of limited screen space.<br /><br />Final note, I guess MUUG *really* won't be getting any book or ebook<br />donations from ORM ever again (not that we have for 2+ years now). And<br />no more "user group discount". And I'm pretty sure this also does away<br />with any future O'Reilly (and possibly sub-brands like No Starch!?)<br />Humble Bundle like the two MUUG has bought already.<br /><br />Hey, it could be worse, they could have announced they were<br />discontinuing print books completely!!! (Knock on wood...)<br /><hr /><br />Roundtable mailing list<br />Roundtable@muug.ca<br /><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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