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Originally Posted by Zita
As far as I can see, that would mean she could only use EPUBs from places like Project Gutenberg, ie old books. But she really wants to be able to read recently published books (mainly non-fiction, in particular history). Am I right in thinking that these new books would all be protected EPUBs?
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There aren't many publishers selling non-DRM'd ebooks, but there are some.
Baen, which focuses on science fiction & fantasy, sells all its books without DRM--and offers its entire catalog
free to people with reading disabilities.
Three Press Consulting has a list of
non-DRM ebook publishers; most are fiction. I put together a
list of a handful more, which again, are almost all fiction.
The US has laws that allow books that aren't distributed in a format accessible to people with visual disabilities to have their DRM stripped; I don't know if the UK has any exceptions to its DRM-supportive laws.
I do know it's relatively easy to find information on how to strip DRM from ebooks. If you're only doing it for yourself (or your sister) and not redistributing the books, nobody's going to come after you for it. You have to sort out for yourself where you stand on the ethics of breaking a law if it doesn't cause any harm to break it.