What publishers and authors sell DRM-free eBooks?
What publishers and authors sell DRM-free eBooks?
I don't mind supporting authors, but I'd preferably like to avoid supporting DRM. What publishers or authors out there sell their books without DRM?
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Tor Books and Baen Books, IIRC. You can get DRM-free Sci-Fi from authors that publish with them.
Most ebooks I read are free out-of-copyright content from Project Gutenberg or freely published stories (e.g. fanfic, web original content) though.
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Nice, awesome. Yeah I use Gutenberg and Standard eBooks liberally.
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Baen library is pretty great. They have been around for a very long time. They give you all the drm free files for books.
Check out their free library for some free books.
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How's the general quality of the books they publish?
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I'm a fan. They give you the full epubs + many other formats you never think about like pdf, html, txt, etc....
Just click on any of the books to give it a shot: https://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html
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If you're interested in audiobooks too, https://libro.fm/ is DRM-free.
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Greg Egan's books are on Smashwords, which is DRM-free. Most of them have the first chapter available on his website, which is good because some of it is REALLY hard sci-fi. I chipped a tooth reading Dichronauts (metaphorically speaking). Scale is more accessible. Diaspora is my favorite.
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Thanks! How's the quality on the rest of the website? Many books just look like sloppy erotic novels...
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Oh wow, I just now visited the rest of Smashwords, and yeah, it looks like mostly cheap romance. I've already read a lifetime supply of that as a kid, from fanfiction.
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Juliet Marillier.
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https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/ has a filter when searching for DRM free content.
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Honor Raconteur sells her books on her website, I believe. https://www.raconteurhouse.com/
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I've been using Weightless Books to get sci-fi magazines like Clarkesworld, and they have a lot more categories.
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Cory Doctorow sells his books DRM-free (e-book and audiobook) on his webpage. Some of them are even pay-what-you-want.
It's always the sci-fi authors haha
He also writes non-fiction. You might be familiar with the term "enshittification". He is the author who coined that term.