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A community for the discussion of topics surrounding DRM, Digital Rights Management.

All media that DRM can be applied on can be discussed here, for example books, movies, music or games.

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption.

Wikipedia

Guides and useful tools

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

2025 Guide for freeing books from Amazon (after D&T was removed)

Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books

Liberate your Kindle books before leaving Amazon (Tutorial)

How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux/Archive mirror

Guide on removing DRM from Kobo & Kindle eBooks (reddit mirror, Archive link)

Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub

DeDRM tools for eBooks: a plugin for Calibre for removing Adobe DRM, Obok etc.

Calibre eBook Management

Miscellaneous links

DRM - Frequently Asked Questions by DefectiveByDesign

Guide to DRM-Free Living by DefectiveByDesign

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Additions are welcome! Please post in the comments if you're missing any. While I realize other sources and shadow libraries exist, I want this list to be about supporting the sites, stores and authors that make an effort to supply legal, DRM-free alternatives.

Ebook Stores

Ebooks.com DRM-Free section

Weightless Books (Sci-Fi magazines)

StoryBundle

Smashwords

Angry Robot

Delphi Classics

Humble Bundle

Kobo's DRM free section

Publishers

Tor Books

Baen Books

Authors

Cory Doctorow (Sci-Fi)

Greg Egan (Sci-Fi)

Honor Raconteur (Fantasy/YA)

Juliet Marillier (Fantasy)

Brandon Sanderson on Bookshop.org (Sci-Fi, US-only)

Brandon Sanderson on eBooks.com (Sci-Fi)

Libraries

The Anarchist Library

The Internet Archive

Project Gutenberg (American/General Public Domain, has many other countries and languages as well)

Project Gutenberg Canada (Canadian Public Domain)

Project Gutenberg Australia (Australian Public Domain)

Standard eBooks (Formatted Public Domain eBooks)

French eBooks

Ebooks libres et gratuits (French Public Domain)

French Bibiliothèque Nationale's Gallica (French Public Domain)

Les classiques des sciences social, with a large selection of essays and academic papers

La bibliothèque numérique Romande (Swiss fiction)

7switch

Le Belial (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)

Dystopia Editions (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)

Nordic eBooks

Litteraturbanken (Swedish Public Domain)

Runeberg (Swedish Public Domain)

Nasjionalbiblioteket (Norwegian Public Domain)

The National Library of Finland (Finnish Public Domain)

Audiobooks

LibriVox (Narrated public domain eBooks)

Libro FM

Games

GOG

Itch

Zoom

Music

Bandcamp

7digital UK/7digital US

Qobuz

Honorable mention, SomaFM: free and non-commercialized internet radio.


A note, if your native language is for example German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish or similar, you can usually find DRM-free ebooks in your native language through your national stores. The ePubs are usually just watermarked. This might be applicable to other countries as well, even though I'm aware that some countries like Japan or South Korea have even stricter DRM schemes than the English-speaking world.

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[–] pixelmeow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brandon Sanderson offers many of his ebooks on bookshop.org DRM-free: https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Brandon+Sanderson

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, unfortunately US only but Sanderson is published by TOR who pretty much releases all of their books DRM-free.