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ATDrake · 10-18-2011, 12:47 AM

Samhain also sells directly from their website (and they give 30% off new release books) in what looks like DRM-free MultiFormat. They seem to be reasonably fair to their authors, though I'm not really in a position to know.

But I'm surprised that your Sony won't take the Samhain books, because they're sold as plain non-DRM ePubs over at B&N (at least, all the Samhain freebies I've ever gotten there have opened in just about any random ePub reader, Lucidor & that other Firefox ePub extension included without having to strip), rather than B&N-DRM ePub/PDBs.

ETA: Quickie check of my copy downloaded directly from the B&N website and dragged over to Lucidor works fine and opens with all text readable. Lucidor normally gives a snarky error message when it encounters DRM of any type.

10-18-2011, 12:47 AM	#8
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Samhain also sells directly from their website (and they give 30% off new release books) in what looks like DRM-free MultiFormat. They seem to be reasonably fair to their authors, though I'm not really in a position to know. But I'm surprised that your Sony won't take the Samhain books, because they're sold as plain non-DRM ePubs over at B&N (at least, all the Samhain freebies I've ever gotten there have opened in just about any random ePub reader, Lucidor & that other Firefox ePub extension included without having to strip), rather than B&N-DRM ePub/PDBs. ETA: Quickie check of my copy downloaded directly from the B&N website and dragged over to Lucidor works fine and opens with all text readable. Lucidor normally gives a snarky error message when it encounters DRM of any type. Last edited by ATDrake; 10-18-2011 at 12:57 AM.