The company behind DVDFab has released a new product that can remove the DRM protection from purchased Kindle ebooks and convert them to EPUB format for compatibility with ereaders and reading apps outside of Amazon’s control. The software is called BookFab Kindle Converter, and it isn’t cheap. A 1-month license costs $39.99, a 1-year license […]
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Amazon Has Disabled Downloading Kindle Unlimited Titles for USB Transfer
Last week I posted about how Amazon is making it more difficult to remove DRM from purchased Kindle ebooks, and now people are noticing that Amazon has removed the option to download Kindle Unlimited books from the Manage Your Content page for those that use the USB transfer option. Amazon already removed the option to […]
Amazon Making it More Difficult to Remove DRM From Kindle eBooks
I saw this post over at MobileRead with a discussion about how Amazon is making it harder to remove the DRM from purchased Kindle ebooks. Apparently, newly-published Kindle ebooks can no longer be downloaded using older versions of Kindle for PC/Mac, so if you use this method to get your purchased Kindle ebooks to remove […]
Use noDRM to Remove DRM from Purchased eBooks for Free
For those of you that prefer to remove the DRM from your purchased ebooks to make backups and convert formats and such, there’s a new set of DRM removal tools called noDRM that’s based on Apprentice Harper’s version of the DeDRM tools. The Apprentice Alf blog used to be the go-to source for ebook DRM […]
How to Fix Recent Issues with Calibre DeDRM Plugin
Lately there have been a number of reports in the Calibre forum of the DRM removal plugin not working with the latest version of Calibre, but luckily there are a few workarounds to get things back up and running again. The reason the DeDRM plugin and some other plugins aren’t working is because Calibre was […]
Alf’s DRM Removal Tools Now Support Kindle’s KFX Format
Last week Apprentice Alf released a new version of the DeDRM tools with added support for KFX format, so now you can easily import KFX books to Calibre to create backups and convert them to other formats. KFX is Amazon’s latest format for Kindle ebooks. It adds support for the newer enhanced formatting features and […]
Removing DRM from Kindle eBooks in Jeopardy Moving Forward?
In February Amazon is expected to release an update for their Kindle for PC program that could make removing DRM from Kindle ebooks problematic. When Amazon came out with their new enhanced typesetting engine in 2015, they started to change the Kindle ebook format from AZW to KFX to accommodate the added features. Since then […]
B&N Using New Nook DRM Key, Sending Even More Customers Away
Sometimes it seems like someone on the inside at Barnes and Noble is secretly trying to take down the Nook business from the inside out. That’s about the only thing that could explain the continued bad decisions that keep sending more and more people away from Barnes and Noble’s Nook devices and Nook books. This […]