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_Muthian 10 hours ago [-]
libro.fm for DRM free audio books, buying from there supports local book shops.
technothrasher 18 hours 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.
bluebarbet 16 hours ago [-]
Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.
devindotcom 14 hours ago [-]
Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?
loloquwowndueo 14 hours ago [-]
I believe they’d change the spelling of a word if it’s archaic and obscure in the original text.
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.
AtheistOfFail 16 hours ago [-]
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
teo_zero 7 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...
themadturk 15 hours 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.
akkartik 10 hours ago [-]
The uncertainty is part of the problem. Funny that even authors are not sure :)
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.
Lio 16 hours 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.
babblingfish 19 hours ago [-]
I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
kreyenborgi 17 hours ago [-]
Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
bentley 17 hours ago [-]
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
chocochunks 15 hours ago [-]
Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
themadturk 15 hours 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.
mrec 13 hours ago [-]
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
babblingfish 15 hours ago [-]
You can buy them from bookshop.org
archargelod 12 hours ago [-]
Love their browser. Very convenient for downloading no DRM e-books you bought.
17 hours ago [-]
TeaVMFan 19 hours ago [-]
I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
murats 19 hours ago [-]
Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
Nzen 14 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].
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/
Leptonmaniac 18 hours ago [-]
So this is a similar idea to Project Gutenberg?
ChuckMcM 13 hours ago [-]
No Starch Press sells all of its books with DRM as well.
Imustaskforhelp 18 hours 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
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...
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.
https://standardebooks.org/about/what-makes-standard-ebooks-...
https://shop.craphound.com/
> 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...
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.
https://pragprog.com/
Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.
Nonetheless, I'll promote an author of both non- and fiction ebooks I've bought from, Michael W Lucas [0].
[0] https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/
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!
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710584