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And quite a few ePub book vendors do not use DRM. According to a talk at a convention years back, neither Baen nor Tor have seen increases in piracy of their ebooks compared to competitors that use DRM.
As for Apple's DRM at this time, their DRM is not removable though that is likely due to their relatively small share of the ebook market.
OYAH, why is it so hard to get a decent idea of what ebook market share is? Preferably one with numbers that will not cause uncontrollable laughter. For instance, I ran into one late 2024 publication which stated Amazon has 91% of the worldwide ebook market, B&N is second at 25%, Apple has 5% and Kobo has 3%. This oddly adds up to 124%. The B&N 25% is a bit strange as a share of the world wide market since B&N only sells books in the US market and the US market is a lot smaller than the rest of the world combined. Other odd statistics such as 45% of Chinese consumers read ebooks compared to 23% of USA consumers which given the Chinese population is ~4.15 times larger than the population of the USA so that would give about 635 million ebook readers in China compared to 72 million ebook readers in the USA.
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