TL;DR
- Amazon will begin providing EPUB and PDF downloads for DRM-free e-books it sells.
- Publishers still have the ability to choose to use Amazon’s DRM and not offer such downloads.
- While EPUB and PDF files are easy to load on third-party e-readers, they’re also a potential source of piracy.
As consumers, none of us have any reason to like digital rights management (DRM). At best, we don’t notice it, but when we do, it’s because DRM is getting in the way of us accessing our content on the devices we want to. Right now, Amazon is sharing some potentially impactful changes to the way it applies DRM to its e-book sales, and anybody with a non-Kindle e-reader is definitely going to want to pay close attention.
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