After several years of mandatory DRM lockdowns from most commercial book sources, now authors have a choice when it comes to DRM for their books. Pick authors and books that are DRM-free, or download DRM-free classics that are out of copyright.
kreyenborgia day ago
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...
tren15 hours ago
We also do the same at ebooks.com, there's a DRM free section too - https://www.ebooks.com/drm-free
TeaVMFanopa day ago
The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.
Abishek_Muthian17 hours ago
libro.fm for DRM free audio books, buying from there supports local book shops.
technothrashera day ago
> 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.
bluebarbeta day ago
Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.
devindotcoma day ago
Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?
loloquwowndueoa day ago
I believe they’d change the spelling of a word if it’s archaic and obscure in the original text.
https://standardebooks.org/about/what-makes-standard-ebooks-...
Groxxa day ago
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...
philipsa day ago
All of Cory Doctorow books are DRM free.
TeaVMFanopa day ago
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.
AtheistOfFaila day ago
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
itsdesmond7 hours ago
By the very definition you can buy them and send them to whoever you want. Just, you know, don’t read it yourself and you’ve done it.
themadturka day ago
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.
akkartik18 hours ago
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.
itsdesmond7 hours ago
DRM-less on Apple is fairly useless in that the file isn’t exportable or readily found in your filesystem.
teo_zero15 hours ago
> 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...
rickcarlinoa day ago
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.
desta day ago
Remove DRM from ebooks you bought with https://github.com/esn/knock
Lioa day ago
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.
babblingfisha day ago
I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
kreyenborgia day ago
Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
bentleya day ago
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
chocochunksa day ago
Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
themadturka day ago
At least some Tor.com ebooks are available DRM-free through Amazon. Honor Of The Queen, 2nd in the Honor Harrington Series, specifically says it's sold without DRM on Amazon.
mrec21 hours ago
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
babblingfisha day ago
You can buy them from bookshop.org
archargelod19 hours ago
Love their browser. Very convenient for downloading no DRM e-books you bought.
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TeaVMFanopa day ago
I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
muratsa day ago
Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
Nzen21 hours ago
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].
boznz18 hours ago
Add both my Sci-Fi/Techno-Thriller ePub books to this list DRM Free, and Free as in Beer if you download them off my website. https://rodyne.com/
utopiah15 hours ago
Leptonmaniaca day ago
So this is a similar idea to Project Gutenberg?
ChuckMcM20 hours ago
No Starch Press sells all of its books with DRM as well.
Imustaskforhelpa day ago
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!
teravora day ago
all books are DRM-free if you download them from the right place ;)
themadturka day ago
Yes, but from some of those places the authors receive no compensation.
jMylesa day ago
If their wallet address is available on the internet, that's an easily solved problem.
qurren15 hours ago
They chose the DRM path, so they brought this fate upon themselves.
shmerla day ago
Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.
microgpt21 hours ago
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