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Originally Posted by datcha
I would be interested in knowing whether this offer is accessible from other countries, through one of the vendors.
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Chapitre.com will let me signup from Canada, but it's all geo-restricted for me as I can't add anything non-physical to the cart, not even the free ebooks listed on the promo page. I just get the error message of "Désolé, ce produit est actuellement indisponible". OTOH, I can add things to my wishlist, which is handier than doing it at Amazon or Kobo, since the prices are included on the list and I can easily check if say, J'ai Lu has price-dropped a title in France and hopefully are carrying the sale through to Canada as well.
As it turns out, Bragelonne had such success with the #GrosseOP promo that the Facebook page for their main France operations says that they are repeating all 500 books in the promo over the weekend, with
some links to vendors who carry them. Bragelonne Québec, who are well aware of the price discrepancy between the Canadian dollar and the Euro and just don't care, are also pushing the promo as just 100 books per day
and also provide multi-vendor linkage, but Kobo Canada seems to have all of them listed at the discount price and eligible for 5x Bonus Super Points anyway, without having to wait for them to rotate.
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Originally Posted by datcha
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.
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In the case of the Chapitre.com listings which you provided in your post, scrolling down on the page to "Affiner par" on the sidebar to refine your search has a tickybox of "Protection numérique" for which one can see all 103 titles in the #GrosseOP sale are checked as "pas de protection", which looks a lot like a stealth DRM-free listing.
I'll note that Bragelonne also seem to be secretly DRM-free at iTunes, judging from the freebie sampler I was able to successfully transfer over from iBooks to another e-reader program.
Incidentally for readers wishing to look into vintage French science fiction from this sale, there are 60s/70s reprint titles in the Bragelonne Classique line by Michel Jeury (
Wikipedia) and Jean-Pierre Andrevon (
Wikipedia) in it, both of whom their Wikipedia entries seem to say they were strong influences in the French science fiction scene at the time. And fantasy novelist Magali Ségura (
Wikipedia) is another Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire alumna, though only as a nominee, though she does have a Prix Bob-Morane. And Serge Brussolo (
Wikipedia) is a Prix Apollo winner with some titles represented in the sale as well.