Last month, some authors were concerned at the news that Amazon would start to allow ebook buyers to download ebooks in ePub or PDF format if DRM was not enabled. Some authors that hadn't used DRM in the past considered enabling it to prevent these downloads.

The feature was rolled out recently, so I tried downloading three books (one of mine, and two traditionally published books) that don't have DRM.

When looking at my purchased books in the digital content area, some books had a "Download available in additional formats" note in the listing, and they had a "Download EPUB/PDF" option under "More actions".

On the books that I tried, clicking that option downloaded a zip file with a 72-character long file name starting "ebook-content." and a .zip extension. Examining the zip file, it's an ePub with a .zip extension. So changing the extension from .zip to .epub allows me to view it in an ebook reader.

No sign of a PDF in any of these cases.

I'm not impressed at how Amazon have implemented this change, but I still see no reason to enable DRM on any of my books.

~Robin

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