


When you buy an e-book with DRM you don't really own it but just have a permission to use it in a manner dictated to you by the seller. Calibre DRM removal plugins for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, PDF, EPUB and other ebooksĭRM (Digital rights management) is a technology for access control that is used by ebook publishers and inhibits uses of ebooks that were not desired or foreseen by the content provider. So far the change only affects new books published starting January 3rd, 2023, but it makes you wonder how things are going to change in the future, and what other things Amazon is going to do to make removing DRM more difficult.Ģ012. Apparently, newly-published Kindle ebooks can no longer be downloaded using older versions of Kindle for PC/Mac, so if you use this method to get your purchased Kindle ebooks to remove the DRM you’re going to run into problems moving forward. The newer versions download ebooks in Amazon’s KFX format that can’t be stripped of DRM (except with certain older versions). Until now there was a way to use older versions of the Kindle for PC app to get the older format of Kindle ebooks in order to easily remove the DRM.

Amazon is making it more difficult to remove DRM from Kindle eBooks Latest news about DRM removal software for ebooksĠ7.01.23.
