Surprisingly, some time ago all large publishers (or rather, their trade union) have agreed to drop DRM in favor of "invisible watermarking" for all of the German-language books they sell – except for one. Take a wild guess which one...
In any case, this is really great when buying books: Since it's all just DRM-free ePubs, I can read them on whatever hardware I want, including a Kindle.
The formatting and UI is a bit off compared to "native" Kindle books (which are also just ePub at this point!) because Amazon refuses to activate their nicer/newer renderer for "personal documents", but not being locked into a given ecosystem for books I already bought vastly outweighs that.
Surprisingly, some time ago all large publishers (or rather, their trade union) have agreed to drop DRM in favor of "invisible watermarking" for all of the German-language books they sell – except for one. Take a wild guess which one...
In any case, this is really great when buying books: Since it's all just DRM-free ePubs, I can read them on whatever hardware I want, including a Kindle.
The formatting and UI is a bit off compared to "native" Kindle books (which are also just ePub at this point!) because Amazon refuses to activate their nicer/newer renderer for "personal documents", but not being locked into a given ecosystem for books I already bought vastly outweighs that.