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Guide to DRM-Free Living: Bookstores & Publishers
By
Steve Solberg
Posted:
2024-04-28T17:19:09Z
DRM Free book stores:
Beam Book Store
sells DRM-free books in German. Some books are distributed with a buyer-unique watermark, although this watermark does not limit book usage.
Book View Café
sells ebooks without DRM or an EULA
The Bundle of Holding
is a DRM-free bookselling site that sells time-limited, DRM-free offers of tabletop roleplaying game rulebook .PDFs and RPG-related ebooks.
Chicago Shorts
, DRM-free ebooks, passages and short stories selected by the University of Chicago.
Closed Circle
-- Small DRM-free ebook store, direct from the authors themselves. Specializing in fantasy.
Delphi Classics
sells copies of classic texts edited and formatted as ebooks. All epub files are DRM-free, but not the .mobi files.
Ediciones Babylon
-- Spanish books and ebooks free of DRM.
Editions Fleurus
is a French publishing house with over 1000 titles available.
Elegant Solutions Software and Publishing Company
-- eBooks in a few portable formats.
The Fifth Imperium
CD-ROM images. Mostly the images are of the free CD-ROMs included with some Baen Books. Baen Books allows the CD-ROMs to be copied and distributed for free. Every CD-ROM contains several complete novels in HTML format, and some have extras, like MP3 readings. All CD-ROMs also contain artwork for the CD-ROM itself.
Girlebooks
is a resource for classic and contemporary ebooks by female writers.
Humble Bundle (Books)
sells collections of DRM-free ebooks, with two bundles available at any point in time. While they also sell games and mobile apps, these are not reliably DRM-free and we reccomend checking in detail before making any purchases.
Immatériel.fr
-- a French distributor of ebooks that indicates DRM-free titles with smiley faces.
J-Novel Club
distributes translated Japanese light novels and manga without DRM.
Lektu
is a Spanish-language DRM-free ebook store. In addition to books, it has audiobooks, ecomics, and music.
Suomalainen Kirjakauppa
is a Finnish-language bookseller that uses watermarks on the first page of ebook purchases rather than DRM.
MyNavi
is a DRM-free storefront for Japanese-language books, including books on programming, shogi strategy, and tsumego.
U.S. Government Bookstore
offers both print and DRM-free digital publications from across the entire US federal government, ranging from art and travel to business, education, and history.
Verso
is a popular British publisher of critical theory texts. Their books are DRM-free, but they are watermarked.
Weightless Books
is an independent DRM-free ebooksite devoted to ebooks of all sorts.
Publishers:
0s&1s
is both a digital publisher and a distributor of e-books published by twenty-seven different independent presses in the United States and Canada—including Black Balloon Publishing, Coach House Books, Red Hen Press, and Tin House Books.
AK Press
is an long-running and well-known publisher of anarchist texts who offer DRM-free ebooks in addition to their print selections.
Angry Robot
sells a variety of DRM-free science fiction and fantasy novels
Apress
is a publisher of IT-related technical books. .
Baen Ebooks
sells DRM-free ebooks from an assortment of science fiction and fantasy publishers, including Baen Books, Del Rey, and Tor. They also offer a number of no-cost downloads in their "
Free Library
".
Le Bélial
is a French publishing platform free of DRM.
Blackstone Publishing
releases DRM-free books through a variety of retailers.
BookRefine
is a DRM-free publisher that takes a strong stance against copyright trolling and sending DMCA takedown notices.
Boss Fight Books
publishes DRM-free, documentary-style books about classic video games.
Bragelonne
will provide a DRM-free download of their ebooks for customers who first purchased it through a DRM service.
BWB Texts
is a New Zealand-based publisher.
Carina Press
is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin covering many genres.
Flat World Knowledge
is the world's largest publisher of free and open college textbooks.
Goal Publications
is a queer-owned publisher of young adult literature, catering specifically to the furry fandom.
Homeless Book
is a DRM-free publisher offering a wide range of books on politics and political theory in Italian.
Inside Outsider Publications
specializes in publishing fiction which deals with environmental and social issues.
Liber Liber
is a non-profit publisher of Italian-language ebooks.
Lost Art Press
is a small Midwestern publishing company that seeks to help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills. They sell boutique hard copies as well as DRM-free PDF downloads of nearly all of their books.
Manning eBooks
publishes computer books for professionals--programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others.
New Internationalist
is a not-for-profit cooperative "exist[ing] to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice."
No Starch Press
publishes and sells DRM-free ebooks on a wide range of non-fiction topics and howto guides. It's also the publisher of
Ada & Zangemann
, a book introducing software freedom concepts to children of all ages.
OR Books
-- is a progressive anti-DRM publisher
Packt Publishing
has DRM-free books for IT professionals.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf
has DRM-free books by and for programmers in a variety of formats.
Propaganda Yayınları
is an independent publishing house specializing in Turkish languages works on political and socioeconomic issues, including feminism, anarchism, economics, and philosophy.
Publie.net
is a French publisher that offers most titles DRM-free displaying a smiley face icon.
Rocky Nook
is digital photography-focused publisher that offers all ebooks without DRM.
Rosenfeld Media
sells DRM-free ebooks about user experience design and also includes a DRM-free digital copy with every physical book they sell.
Saga Press
is a sci-fi and fantasy imprint of Simon & Schuster. Their ebooks are all DRM-free.
Sher Music Co.
publishes jazz and Latin music real books and method books, and their ebooks are DRM-free.
SIGNAL 8 PRESS
is a publishing company focusing on East Asia and the Pacific Rim which publishes engaging novels, short story collections, and nonfiction written in English.
Sophia Institute Press
publishes faithful Catholic classics and new Catholic books by the enduring figures of the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Springer Science+Business Media
is an international publisher of books on science, technology, and medicine.
Star Trek Books
is a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster. Their ebooks are all DRM-free.
Take Control Books
offers highly practical, tightly focused ebooks covering Apple products.
Tor/Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
-- Science fiction and fantasy publisher of Macmillan, sells DRM-free books.
XML Press
is a publisher of technical communications books whose ebooks are all DRM-free.
Zubaan Books
is an Indian feminist publishing house that sells DRM-free materials.
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