A Note on DRM in the eBook World

10 June 2011

About a 1-minute read

I am looking into buying an Arduino Cookbook, and I wanted to extend a warm thanks to the team at O’Reilly Publishing for its support of DRM-free eBooks. I own a Kindle 2, and while I love reading on the device, I greatly dislike being forced to buy books in locked-down .azw format. If I ever decide to migrate to a new device, I hope my books will come with me! The Amazon system currently renders that impossible, because no other device can read “Kindle” books.

O’Reilly offers an eBook download pack, and while it’s a bit pricier than the Kindle version alone, it offers multiple DRM-free eBook file formats (including a Kindle-friendly .mobi), so I don’t have to worry about reading things I bought. I am certainly willing to pay for good writing, and O’Reilly gives me and the community at large a great, legal means of buying digital books and not having to circumvent cumbersome DRM to read a legitimate purchase.

So, thanks O’Reilly!

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