Amazon has been on a mission to close off all the different ways to get purchased Kindle ebooks away from their platform of apps and hardware so they can keep people locked in to using their store and products exclusively. It’s still possible to get purchased ebooks off of Kindle ereaders to remove the DRM […]
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New DRM Added to Kindles with 5.18.5 Update, Breaking DRM Removal
It looks like Amazon is closing off one of the last remaining methods that allows people to remove the DRM from their purchased Kindle ebooks, locking down the Kindle platform even more than it’s ever been before with a new type of DRM for Kindle devices. This comes after Amazon removed the ability to download […]
Removing DRM from Kobo eBooks is Easy with Free Obok Plugin
There’s a company I won’t name that’s selling DRM-removal software for Kobo ebooks for the ridiculous price of $89.99. They’re most likely just repackaging open-source DRM-removal software that’s available for free online and they’re selling it for a profit to rubes that don’t know any better. The truth is removing DRM from Kobo ebooks is […]
BookFab Kindle Converter Removes DRM From Kindle eBooks
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 […]
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 […]