In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
I always look on itch.io and GoG first!
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.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
An archive.
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.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
I suggest you look that up with duckduckgo
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While that may be true, so far at least they seem to be doing an OK job. Their ebooks are often sold sans-DRM, and in the cases they aren't every one I've gotten has used Adobe Digital Editions which are easy to strip the DRM from (and is a wildly supported standard unlike Amazon's proprietary DRM scheme). Additionally their e-reader devices, while not open hardware are repairable with disassembly guides provided by them and they even sell replacement components like screens. I have not verified this claim, but they also claim to use recycled plastic for manufacturing them and recycled cardboard for their packaging (should you care about such things).
For better or worse, if you want a Kindle like experience, you're likely going to be forced into working with a large-ish corporation, but despite the average experience when doing so that doesn't mean that corporation must be an evil anti-consumer hellscape of rapaciousness and greed. So far at least, Rakuten/Kobo seem to be doing OK by their customers.
Rakuten is a big mess of data tracking and advertisment but I'm glad to hear Kobo remains a good product.
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Who is downvoting this?!
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
Several Steam games are DRM-free and don't even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.
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Enter "[book name] [desired file format such as PDF or epub]" into search engine of choice
And ideally your search engine of choice would be z-library or libgen
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There 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.
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If you are into light novels the publisher JNovel Club sells their books DRM free from their website
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Explicitly lefty publisher, but the ebooks are DRM free and they include them for free alongside any physical purchases. (They do tag the ebooks with your name and email though.)
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Who is downvoting this?!
Jeff bezos probably
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Several Steam games are DRM-free and don't even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.
A surprising number of big names on there.
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My wife likes her kindle hardware.
I love stumbling upon EPUBs and using Amazonโs website to send them to her kindle.
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humble bundle at one point sold a bundle with the works of U K Le Guin, and since i've been meaning to read those, i bought it
all were under amazon DRM
i'm a big fan of being able to do whatever the hell i want with the things i buy so naturally, i got mad and looked for a way to un-DRM them, and i'm happy to say there's a calibre plugin for that. i'm currently enjoying Wizard of Earthsea on my reMarkable
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There 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.
Many star trek novels don't do DRM. I buy them at Kobo, so I'm also skipping American middle man.
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If you paid feel free to pirate it.
This is what I'm planning to do with some textbooks I want for my work.
$200-$300 and you want me to download an app that may or may not even work in 10 years?
Nah, I'm gonna future proof my access no remorse
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๏ธI will pay though, because it's tax deductible, and also because it I ever get questioned on it (since I use them around coworkers and management), I'm golden.
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