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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by sammorrowdrums on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:52AM (#26913744)
Adding for people who want sources:

There are quite a few places especially technical ones. However, many major pulishers don't offer them, so you then have the choice of DRM stripping, searching for illegitimate copies or giving up/in and using a DRM copy somehow.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-nl/drm-free/

https://leanpub.com/

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

Note places like ebooks.com don't sell exclusively DRM free, so you will need to check per book. I returned one to them and got a refund because of my mistake in buying a DRMd copy.

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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by FabHK on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:34AM (#26914587)
For free books in the public domain, https://standardebooks.org

> Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

(Not affiliated, just think they do great work!

Discussed before:

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594802

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138534 )

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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by bayindirh on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:39AM (#26914636)
Add Manning, No Starch Press, InformIT (Pearson) to that list.

They somehow watermark your books though, but they don't contain any DRM.

O'Reilly was very good. Now they only rent their books via Safari. I feel betrayed.

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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by sitkack on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:33AM (#26914035)
I'd add Lulu to that list.

https://www.lulu.com/search/?contributor=Nils+M+Holm

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