After the first few times I had apple remove a book from my library, and the only explanation they ever gave me was “sometimes books change, and when books change they are a new book,” I just went back to DRM free. If I have to jump through hoops, and still can’t keep the content I legally purchased, why would I legally purchase the content?
True. But 1984 is still pretty strong, memory holes, double think, denying reality. Fascist organizations dictating what people can know, say, think, remember.
That’s very much on the nose. But regardless, huge massive red flag, you don’t own something that you have in your library unless it’s physical and can’t be removed at a whim.
I believe it was Sea of Sorrows for me. The first time I contacted them asking what was up, since I wanted to read the book I had purchased earlier that year. They “gave” it to me as a “one time exception.”
I never purchased a digital book again. Though I did still contact them again later that year, asking why it was gone yet again.
They tried to give me a “this may be an updated version” and I was like “no, this is a fucking novel based on a video game, they aren’t releasing new versions every few months like textbooks.”
Honestly, I havent bought a digital book since. You can read between the lines there.
I don’t actually believe there will be a place to purchase DRM free books. Most of the ones I am seeing from a cursory search are for copyright free books.
kobo.com sells books without DRM (under eBook details they tell you the exact format). For example, the murderbot chronicles are sold without. Sadly they don’t have everything like amazon does, especially for niche authors that only publish digitally.
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After the first few times I had apple remove a book from my library, and the only explanation they ever gave me was “sometimes books change, and when books change they are a new book,” I just went back to DRM free. If I have to jump through hoops, and still can’t keep the content I legally purchased, why would I legally purchase the content?
wait till yall hear about how college text books work now
Oh, dude. I never even bought mine. None of my professors even used the ones the schools said we needed.
When Amazon removed 1984 from Kindle, I thought that’s it I’m done. That is too ironic, DRM free for me. Nobody’s going to remove my books
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989048
Ironic but “Fahrenheit 451” being destroyed from Kindle would have been even more perfectly on the nose.
True. But 1984 is still pretty strong, memory holes, double think, denying reality. Fascist organizations dictating what people can know, say, think, remember.
That’s very much on the nose. But regardless, huge massive red flag, you don’t own something that you have in your library unless it’s physical and can’t be removed at a whim.
Wow I have this book on kindle …I’ll check if its still there
I believe it was Sea of Sorrows for me. The first time I contacted them asking what was up, since I wanted to read the book I had purchased earlier that year. They “gave” it to me as a “one time exception.”
I never purchased a digital book again. Though I did still contact them again later that year, asking why it was gone yet again.
They tried to give me a “this may be an updated version” and I was like “no, this is a fucking novel based on a video game, they aren’t releasing new versions every few months like textbooks.”
Do you have a good place to buy DRM free books?
Honestly, I havent bought a digital book since. You can read between the lines there.
I don’t actually believe there will be a place to purchase DRM free books. Most of the ones I am seeing from a cursory search are for copyright free books.
You can buy DRM free books @ your local book store.
I mean, yes. But also no because we were talking about digital copies.
kobo.com sells books without DRM (under eBook details they tell you the exact format). For example, the murderbot chronicles are sold without. Sadly they don’t have everything like amazon does, especially for niche authors that only publish digitally.
Oh nice, I’ll keep that in mind for the future! Thank you!
I can’t recommend myanonamouse because although Dorm-free books are available, they are not for sale.