I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I’m paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?
What you shouldn’t do, because corporations destroyed reasonable free-use with the DMCA, is buy ebooks from Kobo and use the easily installed de-DRM plugin for Caliber to strip the DRM, after which you can then sync them with the e-reader of your choice. Which is absolutely the moral and ethical way things should work, if the publishing industry hadn’t bought themselves some crooked politicians.
Absolutely do support publishers who sell DRM-free ebooks, though. That’s the message we want to send.
I definitely won’t look into that plugin. Owning things you pay for is immoral and a sin. Thank you :)
Sometimes, I sincerely wonder just how mortified the founding fathers would have been if you could have communicated Donald Trump in the White House and his actions this term so far; and things and capitalism like renting the heated seat feature in your car.