Amazon’s latest Kindle update stops you removing DRM from newly downloaded e-books, making them impossible to back up.

According to Good E Reader, Amazon's latest firmware update (version 5.18.5) for its 11th and 12th-generation Kindle e-readers, the Kindle Colorsoft, and the Kindle Scribe, has added a new DRM system ...

Digital Rights Management software makes it difficult to copy movies, music, ebooks, and games that you already own. There are ways around it, but breaking DRM opens up legal and ethical concerns.

This DRM is applied to any newly downloaded books, regardless of purchase or publication date. However, it is not applied to ...