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The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

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101 points kozmonaut | 2 comments | 27 Sep 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lentil_soup ◴[27 Sep 25 08:48 UTC] No.45394178[source]▶
Honest question. Where can I buy ebooks outside Amazon to use with my jailbroken Kindle? Is there a Bandcamp for books?

I want properly created files the kindle can render with the options I want, not a pdf that forces a layout.

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1. SCdF ◴[27 Sep 25 09:39 UTC] No.45394394[source]▶
There are plenty of ebook stores if you google around, that have a standard range and use Adobe DRM, so off the bat wouldn't work on a kindle. In theory you can remove that DRM using Calibre, but I haven't tried.

Other than that, not really? There are plenty of ways in which you can buy _a_ drm free book, but not some large range (or even bandcamp-quality range, where there are authors you've heard of, just not Dan Brown / Stephen King sized ones) site.

I haven't got around to solving this problem so am also interested. I already own a kindle, I don't want to generate ewaste by changing physical device.

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2. thomasuebel ◴[27 Sep 25 10:46 UTC] No.45394673[source]▶
Was impacted by invalid ASIN pop up. Got fed up finally. Sold my kindle paperwhite via classifieds to someone who would embrace the Amazon walled garden (so someone new e-reading). Then bought a pocketbook. Now all my ebooks work again. And no waste. I use beam ebooks for drm free books. Bought all my Expanse books there.