This is a step in the right direction. Now publishers need to take it up.

DRM-free is a precondition for me buying digital books personally. Practically no major digital bookstore offers it.

Recently signed up for Littler Books for the sole reason they offered everything in epub, pdf and Word doc. Sad this is not the standard for paid content.

At least better than completely disallowing it I guess.

So weird. They lock it down so you can’t put stuff on their device, but now you can buy drm free on some other device?

I think we should not allow Amazon to control our digital life.

Same with Google etc... just look how bad youtube has gotten. I try to find a video xyz, using the search term xyz, and after like 5 results, random videos show up. That is not a "search", that is propaganda and an attempt to retain people on the platform - but I am already on the platform playing BACKGROUND MUSIC of some DJs. Why is Google wasting my time when I want to FIND something? And what is even worse - that leaked onto the search engine too. The search engine has been ruined by Google deliberately so in the last some years.

I thought they already allowed this. Is this a reversal on a recent restriction?

Amazon is hostile to your property rights. Don't buy from them.

Well... Lots of companies are snitching their customers now

What's amazon's angle on this? Because it's not believable that they wouldn't have an angle.

So the real question is - how is amazon going to enshitify drm-free books? Are they trying to wipe out gutenburg, standard-ebooks, etc?

Are they trying to be the youtube of drm-free? The place where everyone goes, and that becomes crap due updating Ts&Cs - inserting ads or charges?