(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
I am honestly kind of amazed that so many #DRMFree bookstores don’t carry romance or are for sciFi and Fantasy books and no other genres. If there is a DRM free bookstore that sells all genres and both indie and big name authors, let me know! I’m having a really hard time finding one, legal, bookstore that I can go to. Since I can’t immediately locate one, you know, if you wanted to make such a store, I guarantee you, you would make a fortune off of this. I know Bookshop is working on one but I really did want to see if they weren’t reinventing the wheel that someone else has already created. It appears like the DRMfree bookstore that sells multiple genres, including romance and erotica, and also including independent as well as big name authors simply doesn’t exist yet. Just saying, if anybody wanted to make such a store, you would be making easy money, I guarantee it. #Publishing#bookstodon
For anyone wondering why I stopped tracking book, digital comic, and RPG bundles on Libreture... They'll be back, and built into the new DRM-free Bookshop page. 👍
If you've been enjoying The Three-Body Problem on Netflix, you might like to know the book it's based on is available to buy in DRM-free ebook format through Kobo in the US (published by Tor Books), and direct from Bloomsbury in the UK.
I recently made the switch to @funkwhale instead of using Spotify. It’s crazy how hard it’s gotten to buy DRM free music.
I can buy from much of it from Bandcamp, but older albums I need to buy from iTunes on my work Mac because afaik there is just no way to get them on Linux outside of getting the CD. #music#tech#drmfree