can people please sell their eBooks without DRM? I just wanna read the books I bought from my calibre server and not have to deal with Amazon anymore - ThreadSky

michaelklamerus.bsky.social • 12 days ago

can people please sell their eBooks without DRM? I just wanna read the books I bought from my calibre server and not have to deal with Amazon anymore

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kaurifish.bsky.social•12 days ago

When Amazon offered me the chance to inflict DRM on my books, I happily checked no. Anybody who wants to steal them can just download them from a pirate site. The only honest people I'd be inconveniencing are my paying readers.

nicholasflynn87.bsky.social•12 days ago

I wouldn't look for something called Mobilism

roughtomato.bsky.social•12 days ago

And you should definitely not use DRM removal tools that are available for free on GitHub and self host.

That would be illegal.

Don't use these tools 😉
https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools

bradwenner.photo•12 days ago

There's a Calibre plugin to remove DRM

wilcoweb.bsky.social•12 days ago

yeah i use this because holy shit it's already difficult to read the books i own when i buy them in ebook form

bradwenner.photo•12 days ago

Sometimes I buy a book, then just go download it from libgen because it's easier lol

wilcoweb.bsky.social•12 days ago

I had to downgrade the size and quality of images in some manga I purchased so readers would accept them, and it would have been so much faster to do that.

michaelklamerus.bsky.social•10 days ago

I ended up having to download the alpha version but this worked. Thanks!

michaelklamerus.bsky.social•12 days ago

I know there's other stores like Kobo that sometimes sell things without DRM and have bought eBooks that way.

looseleaftea.bsky.social•12 days ago

Kobo is great - never had an issue getting books from them onto my Calibre server

rozenblumic.bsky.social•12 days ago

A supplemental option I like is Humble Bundle, they frequently do collections of genre or authors and part of the sale helps charity ^.^

michaelklamerus.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yep! I've bought a few through there too

mcoorlim.com•12 days ago

I'm setting up a web store to sell my own ebooks.

michaelklamerus.bsky.social•12 days ago

hell yes, excited for that

mcoorlim.com•12 days ago

I've even got a full-cast audiodrama podcast I can compile and package up.

helical37.bsky.social•12 days ago

Corey Doctorow is a great pick for that. Also, many of the people that are published by Tor Books tend towards DRM free, for more sci-fi-ey spins on things. The Three Body Problem is DRM-free for instance.

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