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 1 days ago [-]
Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.
devindotcom 1 days ago [-]
Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?
loloquwowndueo 1 days 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 1 days ago [-]
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
itsdesmond 10 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.
bethekidyouwant 1 hours ago [-]
You mean don’t read it at the same time.
itsdesmond 1 hours ago [-]
I’m perfectly satisfied with what I wrote.
themadturk 1 days 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 20 hours ago [-]
The uncertainty is part of the problem. Funny that even authors are not sure :)
DRM-less on Apple is fairly useless in that the file isn’t exportable or readily found in your filesystem.
teo_zero 17 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...
rickcarlino 1 days 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.
Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.
babblingfish 1 days ago [-]
I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
kreyenborgi 1 days ago [-]
Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
bentley 1 days ago [-]
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
chocochunks 1 days ago [-]
Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
themadturk 1 days 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 23 hours ago [-]
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
babblingfish 1 days ago [-]
You can buy them from bookshop.org
archargelod 22 hours ago [-]
Love their browser. Very convenient for downloading no DRM e-books you bought.
1 days ago [-]
TeaVMFan 1 days ago [-]
I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
murats 1 days ago [-]
Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
Nzen 24 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].
No Starch Press sells all of its books with DRM as well.
Imustaskforhelp 1 days 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/
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.
> 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...
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