Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks
Bookshop.org, an online retailer that financially supports brick and mortar stores, began selling ebooks today, with all profits going to indie book stores.
This sounded great until the part where you can only read the ebooks using their app and you can’t transfer to kobo/kindle. That is a dealbreaker for me unfortunately.
🙁 Crap, didn't see that part.
EDIT: Also, another thing I hate about most sites that sell ebooks is that they're rarely explicit about what their file formats are.
It looks like some have DRM and some don’t: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks
What is DRM? What is a DRM-free title?
- DRM stands for Digital Rights Management and is the term for the anti-piracy protections most publishers require to be applied to their ebooks.
- We currently don’t support a method of transferring DRM titles onto devices with proprietary operating systems and app stores like the Kindle or Nook.
- Certain publishers, like Tor, provide their ebook titles DRM free, making it possible for us to allow our users to download and transfer those ebook files to non-Android or Apple devices like the Kindle or Nook.
- DRM-free titles can be downloaded and manually side-loaded onto your preferred device. Please refer to your device manufacturer’s support documentation for side-loading instructions.
How do I download and transfer DRM-free titles?
App
- DRM-free titles are available to download from your app’s Ebook Library by tapping the three dot menu under the ebook cover image, then selecting Download / Transfer.
- You can also download DRM-free titles from their product page by tapping the “Share” button at the top left of the screen, then selecting the Download / Transfer option.
Browser
- DRM-free titles are available to download from your Ebook Library on the website by clicking or tapping on the three dot menu under the ebook cover image, then selecting Download / Transfer.
- You will find the same button on the product pages of owned DRM-free titles as well.
