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rickcarlino 10 minutes ago [-]
I wish someone would build something like hiring.cafe but for DRM free digital content. One search query => uniform search results with direct link to purchase page on relevant marketplace. Basically just scrape and index every DRM free content marketplace and put it behind a single search interface.
Lio 17 minutes ago [-]
The Pragmatic Programmers have always sold DRM free commercial book (to my knowledge).
The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.
technothrasher 2 hours ago [-]
> DRM-free classics that are out of copyright.
I started down this road with a few books about two years ago, and I have so many now on my list to read that I hardly ever get to reading a modern book.
I read a lot from Standard Ebooks. But one thing to keep in mind with them- they do edit the books to make changes for readability. Not necessarily a big deal, but something to know.
bluebarbet 22 minutes ago [-]
Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.
I added a link, thanks! Mr. Doctorow seems to include 3 formats in every purchase (PDF, MOBI, and EPUB), which should cover just about any device.
AtheistOfFail 17 minutes ago [-]
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
babblingfish 4 hours ago [-]
I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.
kreyenborgi 1 hours ago [-]
Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.
bentley 1 hours ago [-]
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
2 hours ago [-]
TeaVMFan 4 hours ago [-]
I added it to the list of DRM-free sources at the end, thanks!
murats 3 hours ago [-]
Useful list. I wish more book stores made DRM status obvious before checkout.
Leptonmaniac 2 hours ago [-]
So this is a similar idea to Project Gutenberg?
Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago [-]
So after seeing this project on the front page of hackernews. I decided to add my EPUB reader on a submission as well[0]: https://epub.mirror.forum
and although I already previously had the idea of showing books from gutenberg but your idea made me find more importance in it and I ended up doing so in two different implementations: https://guten.mirror.forum and https://gutencf.mirror.forum, so I thank you for that!
[Offtopic: I am/was also surprised to see that there is a lack of API or platforms if suppose I created this app and I wanted to give users genuine ways to pay. Aside from the walled gardens of Kindle or specific apps, I am unable to give my users a way to just search books, pay for them and download it (atleast to my understanding at the moment) which is a sad thing :-( ]
I hope people are able to give love to my submission at [0] / the link down below. Cheers and take care and have a nice day if a real human is being out there reading this :-D
https://pragprog.com/
Having commercial publishers that will sell you high quality books without DRM is brilliant and I'll always support that.
https://www.bloomsbury.com has drm free stuff, and after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811332 i respect them even more.
Also might be worth scanning old mentions of such https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I started down this road with a few books about two years ago, and I have so many now on my list to read that I hardly ever get to reading a modern book.
I read a lot from Standard Ebooks. But one thing to keep in mind with them- they do edit the books to make changes for readability. Not necessarily a big deal, but something to know.
https://shop.craphound.com/
and although I already previously had the idea of showing books from gutenberg but your idea made me find more importance in it and I ended up doing so in two different implementations: https://guten.mirror.forum and https://gutencf.mirror.forum, so I thank you for that!
[Offtopic: I am/was also surprised to see that there is a lack of API or platforms if suppose I created this app and I wanted to give users genuine ways to pay. Aside from the walled gardens of Kindle or specific apps, I am unable to give my users a way to just search books, pay for them and download it (atleast to my understanding at the moment) which is a sad thing :-( ]
I hope people are able to give love to my submission at [0] / the link down below. Cheers and take care and have a nice day if a real human is being out there reading this :-D
Hope you like or enjoy it and find it useful!
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710584