who hacked the kindle forum to give free access to electronic books?”
In the spirit of giving, hackers have claimed success in cracking copyright protections on Amazon’s Kindle e Reader, allowing eBooks to be exported to other devices. The eBooks will take the form of a pdf file, allowing it to be easily shared around the Kindle community and other file supporting devices. Israeli hacker Labba is taking the kudos for this hack, after responding to a challenge on hacking forum: hacking.org. US hacker i♥cabbages has also created a programme dubbed “Unswindle” (yes, rhymes with Kindle…) that converts books stored in the Kindle for PC app into a different file format for use elsewhere. Kindle for PC allows customers to buy books to read on their PCs without having to purchase a Kindle reader. Amazon doesn’t enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM ) on its books, but allows individual publishers to decide if they want to protect their eBook. Books in the main proprietary format .azw have not been able to be used
