Straight from my unsorted notes and google searches, hope I get the correct. Like I said it is sometimes hard to get information on DRM at some web sites. No idea if these are any good, I haven't tried them. Unrelated note: I suspect that epub format is better able to represent technical documents, such as bullet points, tables, pictures, etc, then AZW (Kindle's version of Mobipocket with DRM). Or it could just be that Amazon does a really lousy job at translating these documents into Mobipocket format. As in the formatting can be completely stuffed up, images too small and low resolution, etc. The quality of the technical epub books I have seen from Google books - epub with drm - seems to be better then what I have seen from Amazon market, plus (at least with Google), you have access to the original scanned document page. Amazon do have a new file format, KF8, based on HTML5 and CSS3, that maybe might resolve these issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats $0 cost or Public domain: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.freekindlebooks.org/ http://www.fictionwise.com/ http://gutenberg.net.au/ http://www.baen.com/library/
$0 cost
http://www.baenebooks.com/
http://oreilly.com/
http://www.smashwords.com/about
http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com/ (seems to be a blog for above site)
http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/
http://p2p.wrox.com/content/blogs/jminatel/all-wroxcom-wrox-e-books-drm-free...
http://blog.text2go.com/2008/01/04/the-top-13-drm-free-ebook-sites/
google search "drm free ebook"
Harry potter
Meant to be DRM free, except for Amazon.
http://shop.pottermore.com/en_GB/books/HP1
google search "harry potter ebook"
http://momentumbooks.com.au/blog/harry-potter-and-the-digital-rights-managem...
http://gigaom.com/2012/03/27/what-book-publishers-should-learn-from-harry-po...
http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2012/03/28/will-harry-potter-break-the-e-b...
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/03/27/harry-potter-ebooks-are-not-drm...
etc
There is at least one blog poster who concluded because Harry Potter
has DRM from Amazon, it must have DRM everywhere. Not convinced this
is the case. There might be issues trying to translate from ePub to
Mobipocket format, however I didn't read those comments in detail.
Apparently Harry Potter ebooks are somehow water marked, is this a
problem for us?
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173976
anti-DRM propaganda:
http://boingboing.net/2010/01/11/david-pogue-tries-dr.html
Last time I search I saw an author that was selling DRM-free ebooks
under a name-your-price system. Can't find it right now unfortunately.
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Brian May