(Coincidentally, I've heard of dozens of cases of people from my country getting slapped with hundreds of euros of fines for pirating while being abroad, all of them in Germany). There are far worse intellectual property offenders all around me, and I've never heard of a single person that ever got into trouble within my country. Neither Marvel nor DC participate, mind you, but many of the smaller publishers do. They have monthly sales that bring a set of them down to 99 cents a piece, which is good, since their standard prices are obscene.Įven Comixology (from Amazon, of course), has joined the DRM-free game, though only for specific publishers. If you're a Trekkie, Simon & Schuster sells Star Trek novels DRM-free on their site as well. I've gotten a lot of textbooks from here.
Informit includes Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, VMware Press, Sams, etc. Informit, which is Pearson's programming and IT book site, sells watermarked, but otherwise DRM-free content (if you really care, watermark stripping likely isn't that hard, but as long as they're not trying to tamper with my ability to open the file where I want to, I don't mind watermarks, I ain't a pirate).
And of course, all of their stuff is DRM-free.
On their own site, if you buy the print book, the eBook comes free, a nice courtesy you won't pick up buying on Amazon. No Starch itself deserves a separate mention just because they're awesome. Wiley, O'Reilly, No Starch, and several other publishers all regularly participate with tech books, geek books, comic books, and manga. There's actually quite a few eBook stores out there with DRM-free options, you just have to know where to look, and they're usually publisher-specific.
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