juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoIn Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishersbuttondown.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1787arrow-down15cross-posted to: ebookdeals@literature.cafe
arrow-up1782arrow-down1external-linkIn Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishersbuttondown.comjuergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: ebookdeals@literature.cafe
minus-squarejaark@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoThere seems to be a few publishers missing here … Baen books (https://www.baen.com/) have never applied DRM to their books. TOR (https://torpublishinggroup.com/) stopped DRM on their books about ten years ago. Baen typically sells their wares directly but TOR are through the usual sellers but have no DRM. I’m not sure how this works in practise with Amazon’s new “you can’t get the files” policy, but they are probably in cleartext somewhere.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMany star trek novels don’t do DRM. I buy them at Kobo, so I’m also skipping American middle man.
There seems to be a few publishers missing here …
Baen typically sells their wares directly but TOR are through the usual sellers but have no DRM. I’m not sure how this works in practise with Amazon’s new “you can’t get the files” policy, but they are probably in cleartext somewhere.
Many star trek novels don’t do DRM. I buy them at Kobo, so I’m also skipping American middle man.