Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 1 day agoI remember an email I sent to Randall Munroe once, asking where I can buy his Book “What if” without DRM.
He emailed me back that unfortunately there is no place to buy it without DRM, because of the publisher, but he also linked this comic in his email:
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here’s a DRM-free copy for sale:
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It’ll look like this:
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ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
They asked for a DRM-free ebook. Of course a physical book lacks digital rights management.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It didn’t say “e-book” when I originally wrote the reply
notabot@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I enjoy reading dead tree books as much as anyone, and whilest the publisher/distributor can’t take it away, there are plenty of ways you can lose access to them. Fire and flood being the two obvious ones, whereas digital books can be backed up offsite. It’s also easier to carry many books when they’re digital compared to physical.
For books I care about I try to get both a physical and a (drm free) digital copy for the best of both world.