this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
792 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

65819 readers
4952 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
792
In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers (buttondown.com)
submitted 6 days ago by juergen@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (27 children)

I recently switched to Kobo as a Kindle alternative, but that also highlighted a problem. Kindle Unlimited includes a TOS for publishers that prevents them from selling their books on any other platform. A significant chunk of the Kindle catalogue is also included in Kindle Unlimited, which means a significant chunk of authors works are locked into the Amazon ecosystem.

It's been very annoying to discover how many book series I've been reading that are simply unavailable elsewhere because they opted to take part in Kindle Unlimited.

[โ€“] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

If the company won't allow the books to be easily accessible, make them easily accessible.

load more comments (26 replies)