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Originally Posted by datcha
eBooks in French
For readers living in France, or having usable access from other countries to the offer (I have no idea where outside France), the reseller chapitre.com has a similar offer of Bragelonne et Milady books (and some others). One hundred books are thus accessible everyday for 0.99 euros a book. Many are translations from English (older and recent books).
The entry point on the web is for me: http://ebook.chapitre.com/ The books change everyday, though the same titles may come back. They do not say how long it will last (could be until August 2nd, when the official sales period terminates in France). Recall time difference: I do not know at what time the list of eligible books changes.
I would be interested in knowing whether this offer is accessible from other countries.
It never say whether the books have DRM. More precisely, the vendor may say " Contenu protégé" , i.e. protected content (DRM), or just say " nc", meaning "non communiqué", i.e. not communicated. Apparently, that is actually intended to mean that the book comes in several formats, some of which may have DRM. My experience, for what I bought (given the low price) is that they provide an ePub version without DRM. But I tried only books originally written in French, or translations from non-English languages. Maybe another user may confirm for translations from English.
It is strange that they will not tell when a book has no DRM, but they may be under "social" pressure not to do so. The major French publishers have power and a deep hatred of non-restricted culture (whatever the lies they may serve in the media).
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Even /Amazon/ don't always say there is no DRM.
But here I see "E-Book multi-format" and that usually includes Mobi for Kindle. If so DRM is impossible for that format unless download is from Amazon.