Reading Google books in Amazon Kindle

[bruce73]

Apparently Play Books doesn't use epub format with paid books, so is there any way to convert and open them in Kindle? I know the files are kept in the system partition, but I was hoping there was a program or trick to do this.

 

[Bhelios]

Apparently Play Books doesn't use epub format with paid books, so is there any way to convert and open them in Kindle? I know the files are kept in the system partition, but I was hoping there was a program or trick to do this.

1. Convert epub to mobi format
2. load mobi formatted book to Kindle
3. ???
4. PROFIT !



Calibre is a great *free* application for managing / converting ebooks.

 

[bruce73]

As I said, the purchased & downloaded books are not in epub format. :banghead:

 

[Bhelios]

Oops. You're wanting to convert ACSM to EPUB and remove DRM... not sure I can help you with that.

From https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1062502?hl=en :

What is an .ACSM file?

As you may have noticed, many downloadable books on Google Play have an ".ACSM" extension. This is an Adobe file format used for Digital Rights Management (DRM) of your ebooks. Ebooks with DRM are protected under copyright law, and our publisher and author partners require us to guard their titles against unauthorized copying and abuse.

 

[bruce73]

I appreciate the explanation. I won't even get into the "not having complete access to things I've purchased" debate, but, bottom line, Google's lost a customer and Kindle's gained one.

 

[Bhelios]

I hear ya... "I purchased this but it's not mine" is just nuts.