If, fifteen years from now, Amazon goes belly-up and Kindle is no more (an unlikely scenario, but weirder things have happened), you can then convert the book to whatever new format comes along. If you buy a book in ePub to read on, say, a Kobo reader, and a year from now your Kobo reader breaks and you decide to buy a Kindle, you will be able to easily and legally convert the ePub book to Kindle format. Without DRM, you can easily convert the book from format to format (using Calibre). None of these books was written with awareness of the others, and yet all three stories communicate with each other in fascinating ways.The upside of DRM-free for you as an ebook purchaser is very clear: You will no longer be held hostage to a particular device or format. Written across a span of ten years, all three of these titles imagine a future for humanity that is deeply interwoven with mechanical lifeforms, disembodied intelligences, and people who embody multiple states of being. The only weird thing about this month’s freebies is they’re all apart of the same ebook file, so there’s only one file to download, and you have to manually navigate the book to get to each different ebook. Tor’s monthly giveaways are available in both ePub and MOBI formats, and they are DRM-free so you can read them on whatever device or app that you choose (on a side note, you can now email ePubs to Kindles so MOBI files are no longer really necessary).
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