If you are into light novels the publisher JNovel Club sells their books DRM free from their website
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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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.
Is there any way to liberate existing ebooks now that Amazon has pulled the plug on downloading? An unfortunate friend of mine has “bought" Books from Amazon for thousands of euros and he just now finds out that he doesn't seem to own them. I'd help him free his books if there is a possibility.
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My wife likes her kindle hardware.
I love stumbling upon EPUBs and using Amazon’s website to send them to her kindle.