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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.

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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)

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)

Games

Music

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you! And no issue at all having other languages listed. I'll add your suggestions later :)

[–] [email protected] 1 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

[–] [email protected] 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.