Transfer books from Kindle to Kobo e reader ??

josie

macman wrote: »

So when your old vinyl LP's or CD's wore out, did you expect the publisher to give you a new copy, gratis, on MP3 or download? When your printed books eventually fall apart, do you expect a free replacement? You are buying a licence for a singe platform or copy.
There's a big difference between 'lending' a single copy of a printed book to friends, and copying an unrestricted ebook so that the author's royalty stream is potentially reduced zero.

Pity they charge the same amount for an e-book as a hard copy of the book, then isn't it?!

Actually, come to think of it I don't think moral high ground and Amazon should really appear in the same sentence, should they? :rotfl:

Lumstorm

Tor books have released their e-books without DRM for the past year and not seen any rise in piracy. DRM is evil and pointless pirates copy anyway and the legitimate customer has unfair restrictions.

I have a Kobo and all my books are cleaned of DRM right away for my own use. It may be illegal to strip DRM but it isn't immoral to do so.

Of course companies such as Amazon and Apple do prefer to have closed systems, they have got to lock the customer in as far as their concerned customers having choice is a bad thing.

Steve-o

Removal of DRM is easy. I strip the DRM off all of the ebooks I buy, and can then use them on the different devices I have. If the DRM wasn't able to be stripped I wouldn't buy the book. I'd probably just download it off a torrent site, instead of buying it.

Ignite

Some online bookshops are now selling books without DRM. However, the email address of the person who bought the book is embedded into the epub file and appears at the bottom of each page. At least with this method, I can use the book as I wish, and if the book ends up on the internet sharing sites, the publisher can track me down for breach of copyright.

johnnyrubin

Danny, yea you;re right calibre is cool insofar as you can share books etc (software needs a loooot of work though in terms of conversion from PDF eetc), but yep, at the end of the day it wont get around this darned DRM issue

Lumstorm

Calibre will not deal with DRM itself you need an unoffical plugin see Apprentice Alf's blog for details and you can free your books.

want_to_save

You may need to run the books through calibre more than once to strip thevdrm. I use this as there are more access to free books on amazon than kobo. More known authors and tbh better deals

alevin

I would say that in this case drm is a BAD thing.When your kindle packs in just outside the guarantee period, you are then forced to buy another piece of crap just to access what you have allready paid for!

macman

josie wrote: »

Pity they charge the same amount for an e-book as a hard copy of the book, then isn't it?!

Actually, come to think of it I don't think moral high ground and Amazon should really appear in the same sentence, should they? :rotfl:

e-books are VAT rated at 20%. Printed books aren't. Nothing to do with Amazon.
The production costs for both are exactly the same, except for the last stages (printing and distribution). e-books still have to be typeset and designed, royalties paid, publicity and advertising paid for, etc.
If you don't like Amazon's fiscal policy, then buy from another source.