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Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.

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].

[0] https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.

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.

Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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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.

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.

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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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...

libro.fm for DRM free audio books, buying from there supports local book shops.

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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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...

We also do the same at ebooks.com, there's a DRM free section too - https://www.ebooks.com/drm-free
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