The eBook DRM restricts legitimate users and forces users to view the ebook on a single device or app. It also controls your usage and doesn’t allow you to share the books with others.

This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks. While attending a library conference in Singapore, Jim O’Donnell lost access to ...

Then drag these files into Calibre. That's it. Your files are now DRM-free, and you can use Calibre to convert then to any format. EPUB is the one you need for the iPad or iPhone, but you can ...

Your iTunes movies, your Kindle books—they’re not really yours. You don’t own them. You’ve just bought a license that allows you to access them, one that can be revoked at any time.

It did fine with Denise's Kindle-native AZW and AZW3 (as long as they were not DRM-protected), as well as PDFs and MOBI. After using the conversion process described above to go from EPUB to MOBI ...

This isn’t true with Kindle eBooks that place severe restrictions on what you can do with a book via DRM. Although it is possible to strip eBook DRM with a few programs on your computer ...

But above all, what should matter to Apple is that ending ebook DRM would be good for consumers. It would lead to true competition among ebook retailers, since any retailer could sell books that ...

Aaron was against DRM, fought for the users, and encouraged open access to information. Early this year, Verso Books published the collected writings of Aaron Swartz. This eBook, according to ...

A new DRM technology is being developed in Germany that gives every ebook a unique watermark of sorts, so that publishers can track them and see who is pirating copies. With the popularity of ...

(An .epub can have DRM, but they usually don’t.) A handful of e-tailers sell unprotected .epub books, although you may have a hard time finding recent bestsellers that way. And almost any book ...

Intrusive DRM often means ebooks you've purchased can only be read on one type of device, especially when it comes to the Amazon products like the Kindle Voyage. Here's how to remove ebook DRM ...