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?
I also have a Kobo. If I buy books from their market place, do I have the ability to also download the files?
You can download books from your kobo to your pc when downloaded to the device, but if it’s a book with DRM then you won’t be able to do much beyond having a backup.
From the website, if with DRM, you will download a link that you can only open with (I believe) some adobe DRM software. You are not downloading the book.
Only if you buy drm-free from them will you be able to download and use / transfer your books. They supposedly have a dedicated section for that, but it’s messy and doesn’t show all drm-free books ; the way I do it is by searching for the keywords “At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software” which will show me all of them.
Now Calibre has a plugin to remove the drm, it works 99 times out of 100.