Purchasing Kindle books from Amazon

Mon, 01/19/2009 - 13:10 — Anonymous

There are a couple of Kindle books on Amazon that I'd like to purchase, however I'd hate to pay for something and then not be able to read it on Stanza on my iPod Touch. As I looked for answers here, I found a page about supported formats. There was a statement just above the chart of formats that said, "Please look carefully at the right-most column "DRM Support". If the entry in that column is "No" for a particular format, we support that format only when there is no DRM-protection."

The Amazon Kindle has "No" in the right-most column, so I'm confused. How can I tell if a specific Kindle book can be read on my "Touch"?

Any specific tricks that I should know about downloading Kindle books?

Mon, 01/19/2009 - 18:26 — Emily

Withak is correct. The vast

Withak is correct. The vast majority of books sold on Amazon for the Kindle have DRM protection, which means they cannot be opened in Stanza.

Mon, 01/19/2009 - 17:36 — withak

I think any reasonably new

I think any reasonably new book from amazon will have DRM (and therefore won't work in stanza). If they sell anything without DRM then most likely it is a book you can already get from Feedbooks/Project Gutenberg for free.