diff --git a/DeDRM_plugin/topazextract.py b/DeDRM_plugin/topazextract.py
index 66f09fd..d7e608e 100644
--- a/DeDRM_plugin/topazextract.py
+++ b/DeDRM_plugin/topazextract.py
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ def processBook(self, pidlst):
             # use 8 digit pids here
             pid = pid[0:8]
             if isinstance(pid, str):
-                pid = pid.encode('latin-1')
+                pid = pid.encode('utf-8')
             print("Trying: {0}".format(pid))
             bookKeys = []
             data = keydata