Despite the fact that content for the Amazon Kindle e-reader is sold in an “.azw” format, boasting DRM (digital rights management) technology for preventing the ‘export’ of the content to an unauthorized device, hackers have worked around a way to enable the transfer of Kindle content to other devices.

While one Israeli hacker, named ‘Labba’ claims to have created a tool that facilitates the transfer of the Kindle e-books as PDF files; a US hacker, “I love cabbages,” has supposedly created a program called ‘Unswindle’ that converts e-books stored in the Kindle for PC (K4PC) application into a different file format.

Noting that ‘Unswindle’ necessitates the use of MobiDeDRM – a program by another hacker, “darkreverser,” for converting protected Amazon content - the blogger said in a December 17 blog post that a new edition of Kindle for PC apparently does not interfere with ‘Unswindle.’

The hacker further said in the blog post: “The K4PC update may not actually have been targeted at Unswindle, as Amazon seems to have done nothing in particular to make the basic approach more difficult. In any case, I've updated Unswindle to handle the 20091222 version of the executable. We'll see if Amazon throws out another new build in short order.”

While some users have said ‘Unswindle’ seemingly is problem-ridden, there as others who have vouched that ‘Unswindle’ actually works wonders at un-DRM-ing the K4PC!