The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.
boznz 24 minutes 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/
technothrasher 7 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.
devindotcom 4 hours ago [-]
Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?
loloquwowndueo 4 hours ago [-]
I believe they’d change the spelling of a word if it’s archaic and obscure in the original text.
Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.
babblingfish 9 hours ago [-]
I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
archargelod 1 hours ago [-]
Love their browser. Very convenient for downloading no DRM e-books you bought.
7 hours ago [-]
kreyenborgi 6 hours ago [-]
Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
themadturk 4 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 3 hours ago [-]
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
chocochunks 4 hours ago [-]
Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
bentley 6 hours ago [-]
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
babblingfish 5 hours ago [-]
You can buy them from bookshop.org
TeaVMFan 9 hours ago [-]
I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
themadturk 4 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.
rickcarlino 5 hours 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.
murats 8 hours ago [-]
Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
Nzen 3 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].
all books are DRM-free if you download them from the right place ;)
themadturk 4 hours ago [-]
Yes, but from some of those places the authors receive no compensation.
jMyles 4 hours ago [-]
If their wallet address is available on the internet, that's an easily solved problem.
Imustaskforhelp 7 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/
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