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Piracy DRM

In Literature and Arts, Sharing is not Caring: DRM and Copyright Matters

Ever since the Internet expanded into the global market, people have been…

Internet Archive takes action against ebook piracy

In a recent development, the Internet Archive (IA) has taken a proactive…

Amazon pulling the plug on downloading e-books via USB and its impact

There have been persistent rumors on this, that Amazon is planning to…

When our ebooks stop working

One of the great pitfalls of buying ebooks is that there is…

Image Comics is no longer offering DRM-Free Editions

Image Comics was an early adopter of offering most of their comics without any digital rights management. Since 2013 they allowed users to shop directly on their website and download comics to their computer and easily load them on their smartphone, tablet or e-reader. A few weeks ago the comics publisher decided to no longer offer DRM-Free comics on their website and gave users until February 3rd, 2019 to back them up. The news came from an email sent to customers from the Walking Dead and Monstress publisher. It states, “This is an email alert to inform you that ImageComics.com is discontinuing the sale of DRM-free titles through our site. Beginning on November 5th, 2018, DRM-free versions of our books will no longer be available for purchase and all sales of DRM-free versions through ImageComics.com will be discontinued.”

Audiobook publishers and retailers are trying to go DRM-Free

The audiobook market is dominated by Audible and in the United States…

Tolino is going to adopt a little known French DRM system

Tolino is going to adopting a DRM system by a French company…

Datalogics is now offering Sony DRM for e-books

Datalogics is the largest player in the Digital Rights Management sector and they…

People are Losing their Trust in e-books

The primary benefit of a print book is the clear path of…

eBook DRM: Providing Protection or Preventing Profits?

Have you ever purchased an e-book, but could only use it on…

Simon and Schuster Offers DRM-Free eBooks

Major publishers are notoriously fickle about embracing new trends and give sloths…

South Africa in Need of a Reliable Digital Reading Platform

Malcolm Seegers, digital publisher for Macmillan, stressed the need to have in…

Fan Community Calls Out Illegal Comics Sharing

SuBLime is an imprint of Viz Media that publishes yaoi manga (love…

Square Enix To Shut Down Digital Manga Stores in U.S. and France

The Japanese site AnimeAnime is reporting that Square Enix will shut down…

Amazon, Big Six Sued by Independent Bookstores Over DRM

As if there wasn’t enough interesting controversy in the relationship between Amazon…

Unglue.it Unleashes Two New Crowd-Sourced Titles

One of the more innovative concepts that has grown out of digital…