Hoverungulate goes WHIRRRRRRR
Jun. 4th, 2013 11:45 am
Jun. 4th, 2013
A working question.
Jun. 4th, 2013 09:59 pmThe last time I tried to pay money for an e-book, I was unable to do so for the first 20+ clicks and got frustrated and stopped.
The time before that, it was free books from Kobo and Google Play. Whose DRM was so hideously annoying that *for free*, I felt ripped off.
The time before that, it was from Baen so it was simple and easy and gave me exactly what I wanted, DRM-free, but that only works for Baen books and not, y'know, for books I want *now*.
Where does one go these days to pay reasonable amounts of money (Hint: Not more than hardcover price, Google Play, I am looking at you) and receive DRM-free (so AGAIN Google Play I am not looking at you) ebooks? ePub format preferred, but that's easy enough to change around on my end.
(And no, while I'm perfectly capable of ripping out Kobo or Amazon DRM, I'm not going to. Purchasing a DRM-locked product validates a business model that says "DRM-locked product can sell", and the fact that I crack it afterwards so I can read it on my device is not the point. And it's nowhere near *cheap enough* to make me put up with the DRM-cracking annoyances.)
So: Where does one go, these days, to purchase DRM-free ebooks in the format of my choice, at a reasonable price, with a good selection?
(While I'm at it: Anyone got a good working way to have reading sync wirelessly across multiple devices for non-DRM'd books, so I can be reading the same page on my phone as my tablet? Yes, I know that Kindle and Kobo will do that, but only for still-locked books purchased from them, and that's not useful. Bonus points for making it work in FBReader.)
The time before that, it was free books from Kobo and Google Play. Whose DRM was so hideously annoying that *for free*, I felt ripped off.
The time before that, it was from Baen so it was simple and easy and gave me exactly what I wanted, DRM-free, but that only works for Baen books and not, y'know, for books I want *now*.
Where does one go these days to pay reasonable amounts of money (Hint: Not more than hardcover price, Google Play, I am looking at you) and receive DRM-free (so AGAIN Google Play I am not looking at you) ebooks? ePub format preferred, but that's easy enough to change around on my end.
(And no, while I'm perfectly capable of ripping out Kobo or Amazon DRM, I'm not going to. Purchasing a DRM-locked product validates a business model that says "DRM-locked product can sell", and the fact that I crack it afterwards so I can read it on my device is not the point. And it's nowhere near *cheap enough* to make me put up with the DRM-cracking annoyances.)
So: Where does one go, these days, to purchase DRM-free ebooks in the format of my choice, at a reasonable price, with a good selection?
(While I'm at it: Anyone got a good working way to have reading sync wirelessly across multiple devices for non-DRM'd books, so I can be reading the same page on my phone as my tablet? Yes, I know that Kindle and Kobo will do that, but only for still-locked books purchased from them, and that's not useful. Bonus points for making it work in FBReader.)