Do you prefer to buy DRM-free ebooks?
You can read them on any device you want, and they're not locked to a single vendor or company. You actually own them.
Here is a list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, and RPGs!
@libreture Thanks, the list is nice and I expect it to be helpful.
Two questions/suggestions:
Would it make sense to separate it into a list of authors who self-publish drm-free books and bookshops that sell more than one author? If I'm looking for a particular book, I would want to look _in_ every multi-author bookshop and _at_ every single-author bookshop.
Do you intend to list bookshops that sell only non-drm books, that sell any non-drm books, or that mostly sell non-drm books? Many large bookshops sell a few non-drm books (sometimes due to e.g. insistence of an author/publisher). I do not see any large bookshops included in the list nor do I expect them to be, but technically they do sell (very few) non-drm books.
Thank you!
You're right, it needs some handy sorting tools, and ways to organise by type. Will work on that.
I'll be adding the items they sell (books, comics, RPGs, etc) into the database, along with formats.
And yes, I have a few big shops on there who 'also' sell DRM-free ebooks: Kobo, eBooks.com.
Goal is to link the bookshop list to the ebooks from those shops already in readers' libraries, so you can discover books from different directions, and where to buy them.
@libreture Many of them (all?) have a search endpoint. Maybe it would be possible (and permissible) to aggregate search results from the booksellers' search functionality?
@robryk Yes. I think Switching.social built a DRM-free search tool for Kobo.