B&N assured us that customers can access content and buy new titles no matter where they are in the world as long as they have a valid US or UK credit card and billing address. We reached out to Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony, and Kobo and asked if customers utilizing their apps or ebook readers would encounter the same problem. Why it should matter where you are when you decide to read a book you’ve already bought is beyond us. This affects people traveling internationally as well as those who move from one country to another. 1: Leave the country, lose your ebooksĪs O’Donnell’s story highlights, attempting to access Google Play Books from a country where that service is not available isn’t possible, even if you bought the books in an access country. However, here are five really good reasons to do it, anyway.
Keep in mind that this is technically against the Amazon Kindle terms of service, and other ebook sellers like Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and Google certainly frown on such actions.
#How to take drm off ebooks from the library software#
And it allows you to read your ebooks on any device since the software can also convert file types. (We don’t encourage you to do this for any other reason.) The process is not difficult, even if you aren’t very techie. The best way to protect yourself is to break the DRM on your ebooks for the purpose of keeping a local, personal backup. There are a growing number of ways and reasons why Amazon, Google, or a book publisher might strip you of your digital library. The way things are set up, you kind of need to protect the digital books you buy from the companies that sell them. Stories like this crop up every now and then, each time highlighting some crazy ebook restriction or policy that most people aren’t even aware of. While attending a library conference in Singapore, Jim O’Donnell lost access to the titles in his Google Play Books app. Apparently, the app detected that he was in a country where Google Books aren’t available and subsequently denied him access to his books. This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks.
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