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
Weightless Books (Sci-Fi magazines)
Publishers
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
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)
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)
Games
Music
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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In case anyone is interested to read in French, may I suggest those specific addresses some free some not free:
- Public domain French authors (mostly fiction): Ebooks libres et gratuits (free)
- The official French Bibiliothèque Nationale’s Gallica. Teh website is, like most institutional things not the best experience one could wish for (I am being polite, here) but they offer a lot of free PDFs as well as a limited selection of Epubs (Free).
- Les classiques des sciences social, with a large selection of essays and academic papers (free)
- [La bibliothèque numérique Romande](https://ebooks-bnr.com/: Swiss fiction writers, with quite a few gems to be found in there too (free)
- 7switch.com. Not all their ebooks are DRM-free but its mentioned… or at least it was I have not purchased from them in quite a few years ($)
- Le Belial a small but excellent science-fiction/fantasy publisher. No DRM and they sell through their own store. I’ve been their customers for countless years ($)
- An even smaller publisher SF/Fantasy, but as good : Dystopia Editions. Obviously, DRM-free ($)
If you would rather limit the list to English, you’re more than welcome to delete my comment ;)
Thank you! And no issue at all having other languages listed. I’ll add your suggestions later :)
Brandon Sanderson offers many of his ebooks on bookshop.org DRM-free: https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Brandon+Sanderson
Thanks, unfortunately US only but Sanderson is published by TOR who pretty much releases all of their books DRM-free.
