Amazon has just added a DRM-free option to Kindle ebooks, letting you read them anywhere. But publishers need to opt in first ...

Amazon announced in December that publishers and authors who submit books to the Kindle Bookstore via Kindle Direct ...

The latest Kindle update, version 5.18.5, adds a new on-device DRM system. The new DRM system makes it harder to remove DRM from a Kindle e-book, back it up to your PC, and store it in an e-book ...

One of the largest pains from Amazon's Kindle store is that every book you download has some form of digital rights management (DRM). Well, that's going way.

On Kindle, readers can download content in EPUB and PDF formats if the publisher has applied the 'Digital Rights Management (DRM) Free' setting to the content. Introducing new eBook download options ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Recently, I made the choice to buy a Kindle ...

Amazon opens up a little: From January 20, 2026, DRM-free e-books from the Kindle shop can be downloaded as EPUB and PDF. Just under a year after Amazon discontinued the previously only way to ...

Beginning Jan. 20, 2026, new books published in the Amazon Kindle store without digital rights management (DRM) will be available for readers to download in EPUB or PDF format, per a company ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...