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- > More Authors with DRM-Free Books
> On Amazon, look for books that offer EPUB and PDF downloads.
Isn't this like saying "to find a needle in a haystack, just look for anything that's metallic"? Technically correct, but not really helping...
by teo_zero - The Pragmatic Programmers have always sold DRM free commercial book (to my knowledge).
Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.
by Lio - Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.by murats
- It feels like this list, if it focuses on individual authors is - if successful - overwhelming in scope. There are, what, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of authors ? If 1%, for argument's sake, this list would have thousands of links.
Nonetheless, I'll promote an author of both non- and fiction ebooks I've bought from, Michael W Lucas [0].
by Nzen - I wish someone would build something like hiring.cafe but for DRM free digital content. One search query => uniform search results with direct link to purchase page on relevant marketplace. Basically just scrape and index every DRM free content marketplace and put it behind a single search interface.by rickcarlino
- Remove DRM from ebooks you bought with https://github.com/esn/knockby dest
- I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.by babblingfish
- I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!by TeaVMFan
- Love their browser. Very convenient for downloading no DRM e-books you bought.by archargelod
- Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.by kreyenborgi
- My own novel, The Immortal Remains, is DRM-free on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google, and other platforms (maybe Apple as well, I'm not sure). Other authors, such as Cory Doctorow, sell their books DRM-free as well.by themadturk
- DRM-less on Apple is fairly useless in that the file isn’t exportable or readily found in your filesystem.by itsdesmond
- The uncertainty is part of the problem. Funny that even authors are not sure :)
I can't tell on https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Remains-Lee-Hauser-ebook/dp/... that it's DRM-free. Amazon loses money in the small this way, but probably considers it more important to train people to not care.
by akkartik - All of Cory Doctorow books are DRM free.by philips
- Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
- I added a link, thanks! Mr. Doctorow seems to include 3 formats in every purchase (PDF, MOBI, and EPUB), which should cover just about any device.by TeaVMFan
- So after seeing this project on the front page of hackernews. I decided to add my EPUB reader on a submission as well[0]: https://epub.mirror.forum
and although I already previously had the idea of showing books from gutenberg but your idea made me find more importance in it and I ended up doing so in two different implementations: https://guten.mirror.forum and https://gutencf.mirror.forum, so I thank you for that!
[Offtopic: I am/was also surprised to see that there is a lack of API or platforms if suppose I created this app and I wanted to give users genuine ways to pay. Aside from the walled gardens of Kindle or specific apps, I am unable to give my users a way to just search books, pay for them and download it (atleast to my understanding at the moment) which is a sad thing :-( ]
I hope people are able to give love to my submission at [0] / the link down below. Cheers and take care and have a nice day if a real human is being out there reading this :-D
Hope you like or enjoy it and find it useful!
- All of Brandon Sanderson's epubs from his website ( https://brandonsanderson.com -> https://dragonsteelbooks.com ) are DRM-free: https://support.dragonsteelbooks.com/support/solutions/artic...by Groxx
- > DRM-free classics that are out of copyright.
I started down this road with a few books about two years ago, and I have so many now on my list to read that I hardly ever get to reading a modern book.
I read a lot from Standard Ebooks. But one thing to keep in mind with them- they do edit the books to make changes for readability. Not necessarily a big deal, but something to know.
- Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?by devindotcom
- Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.by bluebarbet
- Bookshop.org lets you filter by drm when you search.
https://www.bloomsbury.com has drm free stuff, and after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811332 i respect them even more.
Also might be worth scanning old mentions of such https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by kreyenborgi - libro.fm for DRM free audio books, buying from there supports local book shops.
- The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.by TeaVMFan
- We also do the same at ebooks.com, there's a DRM free section too - https://www.ebooks.com/drm-freeby tren