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Request: e-book store for Kindle (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Vlado@feddit.org to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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I’m looking for a store where I could buy e-books which are usable by Kindle. I don’t use the e-reader that much, so I don’t want to buy a completely new device as the old one is perfectly fine. But I also want to have an option to use it from time to time (Amazon already got their money so it would be a waste to buy a new device)

My main problem (and please correct me if I’m wrong) is, that stores which I found mostly contain books in epub format (with DRM) which can’t be opened by the Kindle and which would need to be converted via 3rd party applications.

Are there some good stores with ease of use that’s similar to the Amazon’s one? Buy a book, send it to device, done. Or do I need to accept, that I will need to somehow convert books before using them?

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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not aware of any stores that sell Kindle's MOBI format books. But there are stores that sell DRM-free EPUBs. You can use Amazon's SendToKindle service to send them to your Kindle. There are also online converters that can convert EPUB to MOBI.

As a Finn, these are the only stores I know that sell DRM-free e-books. I don't know if any of them sells e-books to other countries, but they all sell non-Finnish books as well. The DRM-free books are watermarked, which means the store adds some identifying information (your email address) to the books when you buy them.

Adlibris is a Swedish store that operates also in Norway and Finland. They among other things sell DRM-free e-books. Just be warned that some of the e-books have Adobe DRM.
Ellibs is a Finnish e-bookstore that sells both DRM-free and Adobe DRM'd e-books. This is the only one of these stores that has an English page.
Suomalainen Kirjakauppa (Finnish Bookstore) is a ... Finnish bookstore. All their e-books are DRM-free EPUBs. Their prices tend to be a bit on the high side, though.

You can try to find more bookstores if you search for stores selling DRM-free or watermarked EPUBs.

And if anyone knows other stores that sell DRM-free e-books in English, do let us all know.

[–] Vlado@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

That’s the thing that confuses me. We have a Slovak bookstore https://martinus.sk/ which sells ebooks in epub/mobi/PDF formats. Unfortunately they’re mostly in Slovak/Czech language. Also frequently the ebooks marked as “sale ended”. So technically it works, but the offering could be bigger. That’s why I thought there might be something like that, but on a bigger scale.

But as I mentioned in other comment, for now I will manage with using DRM-free epub books. That should be sufficient for me while it still works. Thank you for suggestions.