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/
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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. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
Oh, meant to post a link to this site too, calibre plugin to break drm: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/ebooks-formats-drm-and-you-%E2... -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
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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"
O'Reilly sells books from a number of publishers, all of which presumably support DRM-free formats. Some publishing companies such as SitePoint (where I happen to work, http://www.sitepoint.com/) and No Starch Press (http://www.nostarch.com/) also sell DRM-free formats direct from their respective websites. Various magazines also publish in free formats, such as Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) which I currently subscribe to. Atomic MPC mention on their website that you can buy a digital subscription from them in PDF format, but last I checked it wasn't actually a PDF and required proprietary (possibly DRM-encumbered) software just to view it - a plain case of false advertising. I actually wrote to Atomic about this, and the response was basically "We're new to this, give us a break, use a real computer if you can't read our format". Needless to say, I don't read Atomic any more. Regards, Adam
On 20/04/12 11:24, Brian May wrote:
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.
I can't remember off the top of my head either, but note also that the Humble Indie Bundle people are reportedly working on doing Humble Ebook Bundles. Andrew
Also, on the kobo store some books don't have DRM. The DRMed ones are marked "Adobe DRM EPUB", and without DRM they are marked "EPUB (DRM-Free)". Bianca
http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/tor-books-goes-completely-drm.html -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http://www.affinityvision.com.au http://adsl2choice.net.au In Case of Emergency -- http://www.affinityvision.com.au/ice.html
http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/tor-books-goes-completely-drm.html
I know URLs are somewhat opaque tokens, but I treat them like newspaper headlines. And that was a really unfortunate one :)
On 25/04/2012 9:27 AM, Matt Giuca wrote:
http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/tor-books-goes-completely-drm.html
I know URLs are somewhat opaque tokens, but I treat them like newspaper headlines. And that was a really unfortunate one :)
Sorry, the following URLs should be better. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/tor-uk-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/torforge-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free -- Kind Regards AndrewM
Awesome - that will aid my transition to ebooks HEAPS since I don't buy them if they have DRM. They were one of the reasons my fiction is still physical books, while my non fiction is mainly ebooks. On 26 April 2012 17:37, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 25/04/2012 9:27 AM, Matt Giuca wrote:
http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/tor-books-goes-completely-drm.html
I know URLs are somewhat opaque tokens, but I treat them like newspaper headlines. And that was a really unfortunate one :)
Sorry, the following URLs should be better.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/tor-uk-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/torforge-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free
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Cool. Until now I've pretty much avoided not only buying ebooks, but avoided the topic entirely. I wasn't prepared for DRM on plain text!!! Thanks for finding these links. Is it also worldwide? I'd be annoyed if I ran up against an IP filter.
I don't know if it's worldwide, good point. On 26 April 2012 21:33, Matt Giuca <matt.giuca@gmail.com> wrote:
Cool. Until now I've pretty much avoided not only buying ebooks, but avoided the topic entirely. I wasn't prepared for DRM on plain text!!! Thanks for finding these links.
Is it also worldwide? I'd be annoyed if I ran up against an IP filter. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
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