Show HN: DRM-Free Books(frequal.com)
53 pointsby TeaVMFan6 hours ago14 comments
  • Groxx19 minutes ago
    All of Brandon Sanderson's epubs from his website ( https://brandonsanderson.com -> https://dragonsteelbooks.com ) are DRM-free: https://support.dragonsteelbooks.com/support/solutions/artic...
  • kreyenborgi3 hours ago
    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...

    • TeaVMFan3 hours ago
      The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.
  • Lio2 hours ago
    The Pragmatic Programmers have always sold DRM free commercial book (to my knowledge).

    https://pragprog.com/

    Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.

  • technothrasher4 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.

  • themadturkan hour 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.
  • philips4 hours ago
    All of Cory Doctorow books are DRM free.

    https://shop.craphound.com/

    • TeaVMFan3 hours ago
      I added a link, thanks! Mr. Doctorow seems to include 3 formats in every purchase (PDF, MOBI, and EPUB), which should cover just about any device.
    • AtheistOfFail2 hours ago
      Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
  • babblingfish5 hours ago
    I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
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    • kreyenborgi3 hours ago
      Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
      • themadturkan hour 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.
      • chocochunks42 minutes ago
        Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
      • bentley3 hours ago
        I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
      • babblingfishan hour ago
        You can buy them from bookshop.org
    • TeaVMFan5 hours ago
      I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
  • rickcarlino2 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.
  • dest2 hours ago
    Remove DRM from ebooks you bought with https://github.com/esn/knock
  • murats5 hours ago
    Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
  • Leptonmaniac4 hours ago
    So this is a similar idea to Project Gutenberg?
  • teravor2 hours ago
    all books are DRM-free if you download them from the right place ;)
    • themadturkan hour ago
      Yes, but from some of those places the authors receive no compensation.
      • jMyles11 minutes ago
        If their wallet address is available on the internet, that's an easily solved problem.
  • Imustaskforhelp4 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

    Hope you like or enjoy it and find it useful!

    [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710584

  • shmerl5 hours ago
    Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.