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by cstross 4368 days ago
If there's only a DRM edition, [cough] crack the DRM. Doing this for Kindle ebooks is easy enough that I half-suspect there's a deliberate policy of winking at it on AMZN's part.

I'm not going to tempt fate by providing pointers here but if you ask in the comments on my blog I will be less restrained.

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I'd rather not pay to support retailers like Amazon that sell DRM-crippled books, just to (illegally) circumvent it. I'll demonstrate that I don't support this by only buying DRM-free books.
If it come to that, I suspect Duckduckgo will be kind enough to point me in the right direction.

Since ebooks are zip with a well-defined file hierarchy, I may even be able to hack the unnecessary bits to achieve freedom on my own.

Nice to see that some authors share that point of view.