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Digital Comics Distributor JManga to Close – Proves Once Again That DRM is a...
JManga broke some hearts this week when they announced that they were ceasing operations. This digital manga distributor announced earlier this week that they would no longer sell manga as of 26 March...
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Tor-Forge Reaches First Anniversary of Plans to Go DRM-Free – Reports No...
Late last week Tor UK posted an update on their efforts to go DRM-free. It’s been just over one year since Tor-Forge Books announced plans to distribute their ebooks without DRM (and 9 months since the...
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Celebrate the International Day Against DRM By Removing it From Your eBooks
It’s that time of year again. Today is the International Day Against DRM, the unofficial holiday dedicated to making more people aware of DRM and how to remove it. I have long argued that one should...
View ArticleThe Surprising Power of Having Data
At the end of last week, New York Times technology columnist David Pogue reflected on what we’ve learned (and not learned) from Macmillan’s move to drop DRM from the digital books sold by its Tor...
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New DRM Promises to Ruin a Good eBook in the Name of Protecting It
Do you like to read authors that write with a subtle mastery of the English language? Then you’re probably going to hate this new idea. The Fraunhofer Institute, a German research firm with the motto...
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Image Comics Goes DRM-free – Sells PDF, Epub on Their Website
Image Comics, one of the largest independent comics publishers, shocked everyone today with the news that they were now selling digital comics from their own website – DRM-free. Comic book publisher...
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Dutch MP Raises Legal Questions About Proposed Plan to Pass Customer Info...
BREIN’s Phase III Anti-Piracy Plans When news broke last week that Dutch ebookstores would soon be required to share customer info with the anti-piracy group BREIN, many customers (and retailers) were...
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If Amazon is DRM-Agnostic Then Why Do They Still Insist on DRM on Audiobooks?
Jeff Bezos is back in the news again today with the launch of the new Kindle Fire tablets. He’s been giving a lot of interviews, and one statement he made in one particular interview caught my eye. PC...
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Adobe’s Servers Were Hacked – Your eBookstore Accounts Might be Affected
If you got an email from Adobe this weekend with a subject line that mentioned something about a password, I suggest that you take it seriously. That email wasn’t a phishing attempt or some attempt to...
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A Leaked Contract Reveals that Amazon Insists on DRM
Update: This post is now 10 hours old and in that time I have been told by at least 20 different people on 5 different websites that I am wrong in how I interpreted this contract. You might want to...
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New Chrome Plugin Backs Up Your Digital Comics, Also Strips the DRM
Do you like digital comics, but hate the way that comiXology’s proprietary DRM locks you in (and puts you at risk of their servers going down)? Then I have some good news for you. I have just read...
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Adobe Releases New Epub DRM
Rumors have been circulating since at least October 2013 that Adobe was planning to release a new version of their DRM for Epub ebooks, and it looks like the rumors have come true. Adobe has released a...
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Can’t Read Your eBooks? Adobe’s New DRM Update Could be the Cause
When Adobe debuted their new Epub DRM last week some predicted that the new DRM would soon cause compatibility problems, and it looks like that prediction came true sooner than I would have liked....
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Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users
Update: Adobe has backed down. When Adobe announced their new DRM a couple weeks ago some said that we would soon see compatibility issues with older devices and apps as Adobe forced everyone to...
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Adobe: We Didn’t Mean to Use DRM to Break Your eBook Readers
Good news! Adobe announced late this afternoon that they won’t be breaking a lot of ebook readers in July. According to the Datalogics blog, Adobe has decided to revise the adoption timeline for their...
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Top Shelf Comics Releases a Handful of Comics DRM-Free
Did you catch the news yesterday on Boing Boing? There was an early report (which was later corrected) that the indie comics publisher Top Shelf Productions had gone DRM-free in their online store, but...
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FBReader is Adding Support for DRM-ed eBooks – But Not For the Reasons You Think
FBReader has long been a DRM holdout among reading apps, but that’s about to change. FBReader put out a press release on Wednesday with the news that their Android app will soon support DRM (the other...
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Dstrux Launches a Self-Destructing File-Sharing Service
Adobe and other companies have long offered expiration dates on certain types of files (library ebooks, for one), and now a new file-sharing service is launching which promises to offer a similar...
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Tor/Forge Books Announced Plans to go DRM-Free 2 Years Ago Today
It’s been two years since the SF publisher Tor announced plans to remove DRM from their ebooks. In July 2012 Tor announced that they had followed through on their plans (but later had to backtrack...
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Amazon Started the Day Against DRM Festivities a Week Early by Intentionally...
Defective by Design’s International Day Against DRM is coming up next week, and fortuitously Amazon has given us another example of why DRM is harmful. Early this morning I got an email with an ebook I...
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