Fortunately, though, there are tools to allow you to liberate your books of DRM, allowing them to be read on other devices. So it's not as easy as an automatic export. As Kindle e-books are DRMed, you don't really "own" them like a physical book, and you're restricted in what Amazon will let you do with them. Bringing your booksĬopyright, EULAs, and DRM being what they are, you can't bring your books with you - at least not formally.
If you're curious about moving, I've collected my impressions on the Kobo ecosystem and how it compares. Monopolies make me very nervous, so I wanted to support competition against this kind of behaviour.Ī year ago I decided to make the change, and moved from my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kobo Forma. (It seems like publishers are used to having their own absolute control over the market, however, so I'm not entirely sure who to side with in this case.) The US government is currently investigating Amazon in an antitrust case about preferencing its own products within its marketplace, but regardless, every day its power grows. I loved the backlight and found the overall reading experience pretty good, but recently I'd become more determined to quit the Amazon ecosystem.Īmazon is increasingly becoming a monopoly in the online retail space, and particularly with books, uses strong-arm behaviour against publishers to keep them from setting their own prices. I ditched physical books many years ago, and had until recently been happily reading on a first-gen Kindle Paperwhite.
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