After Amazon spent the past two years diligently locking down its customers' ability to remove its DRM from our purchased e-books (from removing the
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    I was thinking about this just the other day. I used to buy Amazon ebooks. I think I’ve spent probably around $200 on ebooks in 2025. I’ve been successful it not buying a single one of them from Amazon.

    Amazon trying to take away USB uploading of files to Kindle was the push I needed to “fix” that for my device, now I can get ebooks from anywhere and upload them via USB.

    • Geobloke@aussie.zone
      1·
      7 days ago

      Where do you buy them from? If I could get ebooks from somewhere like bandcamp, I’d be so happy

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        8·
        7 days ago

        A number from Kobo, but many from the publishers themselves will sell the ebook directly. Many times DRM free too. Lots of Humble Bundle sets too. I just picked up the 14 Martha Wells books for $18.

        • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
          3·
          7 days ago

          Agreed, I usually am able to find the books on the publisher’s site, for me they’ve always been DRM-free. In the odd cases where that doesn’t work, I’ll usually just sail the seven seas for an EPUB version and buy the physical book to support the author.