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Where do you buy (or get) e-books from besides Amazon? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by rwdf@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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So I recently got an e-reader and have started collecting e-books for it, but a lot of books seem to only be available through Amazon/Kindle. I don't want anything to do with that company. Where do I even start looking? I have my local library apps and have scoured Project Gutenberg and some similar sites. While this is great for classics and older stuff, I want newer books too, specifically science fiction and fantasy. Have looked at author's websites but they typically link to Amazon or physical copies.

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[โ€“] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.baen.com/allbooks/ has been letting people download ebooks for a loooong time. Great little site.

They also have a collection of free books: https://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html

One of the more ethical choices. You get the books in multiple formats and you own it.

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've always been impressed with Baen. They took a hard stance against DRM from the beginning.

Baen Ebooks, like its predecessor, does not use DRM (i.e., copy protection), in accordance with Jim Baen's belief that DRM "just made it hard for people to read books, the worst mistake a publisher could make." Eric Flint, writing soon after Baen's death in 2006, noted that "in his fight against DRM, Jim stood alone as a publisher" and argued that Baen Book's success "demonstrated in practice that all the propaganda [in favor of] DRM is, in addition to everything else, so much hogwash even on the practical level of a publishing house's profits and losses."