All the eBooks of my work that I self-publish are DRM-free, including the ones from Amazon, but Amazon have only recently added an option to allow their customers to download these books as ePubs or PDFs, as well as the special format used by Klndle readers.

It’s up to the individual publisher of any eBook on Amazon to decide:

(a) if they want the book sold with or without DRM
(b) if DRM-free, whether or not to allow downloads as ePubs / PDFs, which can be more easily read on non-Kindle devices.

I’ve opted for DRM-free, any format.

Amazon don’t make these choices easy for their customers to discover. DRM-free books for the Kindle used to have the description “Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited”, which was already rather cryptic, but now even that seems to have vanished.

Links to all my self-published eBooks. [If you don’t like Amazon, regardless of DRM status and file format, these are all available from many other vendors.]

https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html

eBooks — Greg Egan

Greg Egan eBooks

@gregeganSF Amazon has always been very unclear about this. I'm glad some publishers and authors are choosing to still allow downloads in their options for people like me who got a Kobo ereader ! (even though in your case the ebooks are available elsewhere this is not the case for every author)
@gregeganSF Yet none of your books are available on Weightless Books, where DRM-free is required and books are available in EPUB. May something you can do?

@dancingtreefrog

I sell epubs from Smashwords and Bookshop dot org. If people can already buy these books DRM-free in the industry-standard format from a couple of places, it’s not worth the administrative overhead for me to deal with yet another vendor for, at best, a couple of sales per month.

@gregeganSF
The Mobi/KF7 and AZW3/KF8 had DRM free option and there was browser downloads.
KFX always has DRM. Some ereaders only got DRM. Amazon was in contract violation for those publishers selecting DRM free for those customers.

Then they removed the browser downloads and some ereaders only got KFX.
A year later they blocked all ereaders, Fire & apps that don't do KFX.

So the adding of epub (PDF for fixed layout) downloads is reversing what they did over a year ago & many yrs with KFX.