Get today's popular Digital Trends articles in your inbox: 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. Apparently, the app detected that he was in a country where Google Books aren’t available and subsequently denied him access to his books. Stories like this crop up every now and then, each time highlighting some crazy ebook restriction or policy that most people aren’t even aware of. The way things are set up, you kind of need to protect the digital books you buy from the companies that sell them. There are a growing number of ways and reasons why Amazon, Google, or a book publisher might strip you of your digital library. How to Read EPUB on Kindle. Convert both DRM free and DRM protected EPUB files to. Never miss a story from The eBook Reader, when you sign up for Medium. If you've purchased an eBook that uses the Adobe flavor of ePub digital rights management. Remove DRM From Protected Adobe ePub. Convert DRM-Protected ePub. ![]() ![]() The best way to protect yourself is to for the purpose of keeping a local, personal backup. (We don’t encourage you to do this for any other reason.) The process is not difficult,. ![]() And it allows you to read your ebooks on any device since the software can also convert file types. Keep in mind that this is technically against the Amazon Kindle terms of service, and other ebook sellers like Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and Google certainly frown on such actions. However, here are five really good reasons to do it, anyway. 1: Leave the country, lose your ebooks As O’Donnell’s story highlights, attempting to access Google Play Books from a country where that service is not available isn’t possible, even if you bought the books in an access country. This affects people traveling internationally as well as those who move from one country to another. Why it should matter where you are when you decide to read a book you’ve already bought is beyond us. We reached out to Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony, and Kobo and asked if customers utilizing their apps or ebook readers would encounter the same problem. ![]() ![]()
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