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As an ebook consumer, the single biggest reason I don't buy more ebooks is because I have to spend time and energy figuring out if the ebook has DRM or if I can remove the DRM afterwards.

Also, I spend time thinking about the fact that if I ever move to Kindle, any epubs I have won't work regardless of DRM.

I can't speak for other readers, but this is why I don't buy or read books as much as I used to. And I used to read a lot of books.

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> if I ever move to Kindle, any epubs I have won't work regardless of DRM.

I've frequently used Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com) to convert epub to mobi. There are also plugins available for it that strip DRM, though I can't vouch for them.

Amazon also supplies KindleGen(http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211) to convert epub to mobi

Neat, but weird that they don't offer it as a service through their site... or do they?

You can email documents to a specific email address tied to your kindle account and they will be converted.

Amazon publishes a command-line tool called Kindlegen[1] that converts epub => mobi pretty seamlessly.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211

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