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Do you buy DRM-free books? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Papanca@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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Hi all,

I hope i'm allowed to ask this, but i was wondering; do you buy your ebooks free from DRM? If so, where can you buy them, preferably globally?

EDIT: thank you all for your valuable comments, it's much appreciated! Have a great weekend :-)

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know where to buy them DRM free, but I can usually buy a DRM book from Amazon kindle, for example, then just download the DRM free book from a website like oceanofpdf.org

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anywhere that's not Amazon, assuming the publishers are not being assholes. Usually between the American and the British edition you can almost always find a DRM free epub version.

[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not in the US or UK, and here i find that a lot of books come with DRM

[–] reallyzen@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've never seen that a publisher who's locking it's books would sell them different on different platforms. I just checked Andy Weir from his own website, it is all amazon / apple / google etc locked versions - or pulp-tree-and-ink.

But I'd be very happy to be wrong; have you got sites to recommend?

[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, this is a website where you proof you bought the book legitimately and then, they remove the DRM software for you? Or do i misunderstand it? How much would they charge for this?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's a piracy website, but if I've already payed for the book legitimately, I don't feel bad about using it.