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   Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:46:15 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   ebooks are almost always just licensed to the reader—you don’t actually own the ebook itself. If something goes wrong with that publisher, or if it decides to pull its ebooks from retailers’ stores, you run the risk of losing access, EFF’s Cara Gagliano told @WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/bookshop-now-sells-ebooks/

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     PerfectDark (flwwhtrbt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 06:21:03 JST PerfectDark

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     @eff @WIRED

     Calibre cures all when this is the case!

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     spageektti (spageektti@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 07:14:03 JST spageektti

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     @eff @WIRED Fortunately, in Poland almost every ebook can be purchased in DRM-free form.

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     Steve Thompson PhD (stevethompson@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:59:11 JST Steve Thompson PhD

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     @eff @WIRED

     Downlaod it. It's free. I don't want it back.

     https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/110659467116693605

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     Islamic Audiobooks Central (islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 13:28:41 JST Islamic Audiobooks Central

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     @eff @WIRED Use #Calibre to liberate #ebooks you own, and #Libation for #audiobooks. Or just purchase from stores that offer #DRMfree downloads, like #LibroFM and surprisingly #GooglePlay Books.