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I think their effort deserves to be rewarded appropriately.EBook stores using Adobe DRM include: Google play
#Remove drm from epub wiki movie#
> Your typical book publisher is not like the music or movie industry they run on thin margins, and they're staffed by underpaid, overworked folk who do it because they love books, not because they're trying to make themselves rich on the back of a thousand ruthlessly exploited artists. And if you think my bank manager would front me the kind of advance money that Ace, Orbit, or Tor have no difficulty offering for a novel that isn't even written yet, let alone doing so without charging interest or asking for their money back when the product's late, well. (Yes, they commission books, and pay authors for them up-front - a vital part of the process, because most of us can't afford to take a year to write a book on spec and then hope somebody liked it enough to buy it. And without the publisher those books wouldn't exist: wouldn't have been commissioned, wouldn't have been edited, wouldn't have been corrected and marketed and sold in whatever form filtered onto the unauthorized ebook market. > If I put a Paypal tipjar on this blog, to take conscience money from folks who've downloaded a (cough) unauthorized ebook or two, the money would come to me, not to the publisher. Well, I'm happy they enjoyed the books, and pleased that they want to pay me - but still: no tipjar. Usually it's because they've downloaded a warez copy of one or more of my books and enjoyed it and want to pay. > Folks still ask me how they can send me money.
#Remove drm from epub wiki software#
Granted, it is still illegal to distribute software designed to aid people in lawfully stripping DRM from e-books.Ĭharlie Stross (cstross) (an author I admire and respect) is sometimes asked why he doesn't have a tip jar on his website. The lack of enforcement probably makes this a moot point, but if all of a e-book's versions have DRM, and you get in trouble for stripping the DRM off, this would probably hold up as a solid technicality. I suspect that it is in error, but this excemption does not specify that the reason for disabling DRM is to use it for one of the mentioned purposes, only that stripping DRM would be nessasary for the mentioned purposes. "Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format." I just looked up the Librian of Congress's 2010 DMCA statement, where it is stated that one of the classes works which qualify for exception from the no disabling DRM clause of the DMCA is:
With respect to the conversations about the legality of stripping the DRM from e-books (in the USA).
`(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." `(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title or `(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that. The exception mentioned above also, explicitly, does not apply to the following provision: There is an exception to users whose ability to make legal use of the protected material is impeded, but only after the Librarian of Congress rules that the given type of user of the given type of work qualifies for the above exception. "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
#Remove drm from epub wiki manual#
As long as it isn't a technical reference manual I will use frequently, I then donate it to the library when I'm done with it. If the library doesn't have it, I will buy a print version. If there are books that I "desperately" want to read and can't find them in DRM-Free form, I visit the local library. I'm also hoping DRM-Free eBook bundles catch on ( ). There are quite a few more, but I don't want to link them because I haven't personally used them. Just don't support and buy eBooks from suppliers that use DRM.īaen Books is my favorite for science fiction.
I love my Kobo reader with all my heart and it has massively increased my consumption of fiction. Not buying eBooks from suppliers that infest them with DRM doesn't mean not buying eBooks.
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