But there's always a catch.

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

Amazon released a new firmware update for the 11th and 12th-generation Kindle e-readers last week. It has removed one of the last ways that users could back up Kindle books and remove the encryption ...

Amazon’s latest Kindle update makes it almost impossible to remove DRM from newly downloaded e-books. A jailbreak specialist says the e-books are now tied to a hidden “account secret” only accessible ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...