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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
Still, do you know of a well stocked online bookstore that has non-DRM books compatible with the Sony Reader ?
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Fictionwise's
MultiFormat offerings include LRF. They're DRM-free, generally have no region restrictions, and you can download in any of several formats, as often as you like. And they have occasional deep discount coupons, like the current
60% off one good until Boxing Day.
I notice you seem to like sf/fantasy, and they've got plenty of older rights-reverted backlist titles from midlist authors from the 40s-90s. If you like Robert Asprin's comedic fantasy, you might like John DeChancie's Castle Perilous series or Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar, and for John Varley's quirkily cerebral sf, Greg Bear or Terry Bisson might be close enough for your tastes.
The usual sf/fantasy re-publishers who offer stuff on Fictionwise are e-Reads, Wildside Press, Mundania Press, ElectricStory, Wonder Audiobooks (golden age stuff), Small Beer Press, Double Dragon Publishing, and there are a couple of others.
Other places which have DRM-free formats you could convert to LRF are Baen's
Webscription (they sell other books besides the ones they publish and have a couple of Robert Asprin books, last I checked, and RTF and lit for all the books) and
BookViewCafé (consortium of sf/fantasy authors offering their works directly for sale; some titles include .lit and .lrf in the MultiFormat pack).
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Originally Posted by Hatgirl
(Kobo claims to have some non-DRM books but I've never found one and my question to their customer service people remains unanswered).
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Apparently they used to have some, but they've
removed the downloadable versions from their store, due to issues with the redesign.
And they also add DRM to books which come from some DRM-free outlets which have proudly proclaimed their DRM-free-ness via their own website stores as a "DRM makes it harder to read; we trust the customer" point, such as Carina Press and Smashwords.
Given how Kobo's own blog has blathered on about cross-platform compatibility and openness and trusting the reader, I'm not sure whether this is ironic, hypocritical, or ironically hypocritical.