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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2012-12-03 03:40 pm
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Bujold Fantasy

 Is there anywhere I can buy DRM free ebooks of Bujold's fantasy novels (not 'The Spirit Ring')

I can't find them anywhere.  (I can find illegal copies, but I'd prefer to support author and publisher)

I can find DRM-free Vorkosigan novels, but I own all those already.
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[identity profile] dumain.com (from livejournal.com) 2012-12-03 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Is buying DRM free a point of principle or could you not buy a DRM'd copy and then either strip the DRM or download a DRM free copy.
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2012-12-04 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
bit of both.

I dislike supporting publishers who sell DRM books, plus I'm not very comfortable with the hassle factor of DRM stripping.
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[identity profile] thebobby.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the choices of deal with DRM, steal, paper or don't read, i've chosen to deal with DRM - though Baen.com who don't do DRM get purchases that I wouldn't make if they did have DRM.

I do DRM stripping, for the simple reason that I buy my books but don't want to deal with losing them due to 'Critical Existence Failure' on the part of the publisher. Being able to have all my books in one library in one application is an added bonus.

The first time this happened to me, the DRM provider the publisher used folded - so both the publisher and the store still existed but the books vanished!

It is happening again with Fictionwise and eReader vanishing, with the accounts being moved to B&N's Nook. However not all books are going to be able to be transferred.

[identity profile] dev-iant.livejournal.com 2012-12-04 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
There was a DRM-free CD of all all the Vorkosigan stories included with the hardback of the last but one novel, Cryoburn, if you can get hold of that.
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[identity profile] thebobby.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly her fantasy books are through a different publisher and are not available DRM free.
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
If it's a different publisher, I guess that explains it. I'd wondered what the reason was.

I'll probably buy them as second-hand paperbacks instead. (though I do find paperbacks harder to read than ebooks)

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[identity profile] dumain.com (from livejournal.com) 2014-08-20 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Humble Bundle are doing a bundle that includes "The Curse of Chalion" DRM free.
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