Every so often you hear about someone’s Amazon Kindle eBook library getting wiped out for some reason or the other. Mathew Ingram, my colleague at GigaOM, often reminds us that we don’t buy books, we sort of rent them. Anyway San Francisco-based iOS developer Zach West (who created Prowl) has come up with a handy guide to strip the DRM and move your Kindle books to iBooks format. It is totally worth a read. You should check it out, if you are feeling jittery about Amazon. (via Adactio:)
Update: Paul Kedrosky points to another how-to, this time from the Cult of Mac, who also show you how to keep all your books in the cloud as well. It needs a bunch of things, and is worth trying.
Why would de-drming your kindle books and migrating to iBooks be better than de-drming your kindle books, backing them up, and then putting the de-drmed kindle books back into kindle on iPad?
This is great. Do you know of an article that explains how to strip the DRM from iBooks. I have written a number of books using iBooks Author that I would like to give to friends and family in different formats. I know that I can save them in PDF from iBooks Author, but you lose the interactive elements that way.