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DRM Weekly News

Hi, I'm Sarah Adelaida and I am working at the FSF this summer as part of a newly launched internship program. I will be posting new DRM news each Friday. If you'd like to know more about me read http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/sarah-mcintire-introduction/ -- if you see stories we should mention here, please let me know.

Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort

DefectiveByDesign activists have been tireless in finding and labeling DRM-infected products on Amazon with tags like "defectivebydesign" and "drm".

Topic:  drm ebooks kindle

35 Days Against DRM -- Day 3: Overdrive

From the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov in 2001 to our protest at the Boston Public Library earlier this year, the issue of DRM on eBooks and audiobooks is not a new one. OverDrive continues to push DRM on library patrons and libraries.

Naxos

A variety of contemporary and classical audio books, without DRM and in the MP3 format.

Taxonomy upgrade extras:  Audio audio guide ebooks

The Kindle Swindle


Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com - Photo by O'Reilly at Flickr

. Tag the Kindle and Kindle ebooks on Amazon.

Wired on EBooks

Wired has a good blog post up about ebooks and how DRM has stymied adoption, "The why of that has many faces, but DRM plays its part. Taking a historically commonplace form of expression, freely portable in its traditional format, and turning it into an ephemeral, hardware-specific, proprietary service?"

Topic:  drm ebooks
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