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Conversion and editing are easily applied to appropriately licensed digital books, but commercially purchased e-books may need to have digital rights management (DRM) restrictions removed. Calibre does not natively support DRM removal, but may enable DRM removal after installing plug-ins with such a function. [6] [7]
The digital book format originally used by Sony Corporation. It is a proprietary format, but some reader software for general-purpose computers, particularly under Linux (for example, Calibre's internal viewer [2]), have the capability to read it. The LRX file extension represents a DRM-encrypted e-book. More recently, Sony has converted its ...
Digital distributor GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) specializes in PC video games and has a strict non-DRM policy. [50] Baen Books and O'Reilly Media, dropped DRM prior to 2012, when Tor Books, a major publisher of science fiction and fantasy books, first sold DRM-free e-books. [51] The Axmedis project completed in 2008.
Unencrypted Mobipocket books could be read on the Amazon Kindle natively, as well as in Amazon Kindle programs on Mac OS X, iOS devices, Android devices, Windows, and Windows Phone devices. By using third-party programs such as Lexcycle Stanza, calibre or Okular, unencrypted Mobipocket books could also be read on Mac OS X, iOS, Android devices ...
Tor Books, a major publisher of science fiction and fantasy books, started to sell e-books DRM-free by July 2012. [16] One year later the publisher stated that they will keep this model as removing DRM was not hurting their digital distribution ebook business. [17]
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play, which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
Javelin PDF Reader is a full functionality secure PDF reader for Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS (iPad and iPhone) and Android, with support for Digital Rights Management (DRM) using encoded and encrypted PDF files in Drumlin's DRMX and DRMZ formats. PDF files that have been converted to the DRMX and DRMZ formats (using the free DrumlinPublisher ...
The eSlick is a discontinued e-book reader, an electronic book reading device developed by Foxit Software. It has a 6-inch E Ink screen, 600x800 pixel resolution with 4-level gray scale and a mass of 180 g. The device supports text and PDF format for reading and includes Foxit's PDF Creator and Reader Pro Pack software.