I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I’m paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?
ebooks.com has a toggle for drm-free books, most of mine comes from there. Your library is there, you can download it.
TOR publishing doesn’t use DRM, and their books’ page have links to places to buy them
Be aware that a drm-free eBook bought on amazon will have drm applied. Fuck Amazon. Kobo doesn’t do that, I have a Clara now.
I also have a Kobo. If I buy books from their market place, do I have the ability to also download the files?
You can download books from your kobo to your pc when downloaded to the device, but if it’s a book with DRM then you won’t be able to do much beyond having a backup.
From the website, if with DRM, you will download a link that you can only open with (I believe) some adobe DRM software. You are not downloading the book.
Only if you buy drm-free from them will you be able to download and use / transfer your books. They supposedly have a dedicated section for that, but it’s messy and doesn’t show all drm-free books ; the way I do it is by searching for the keywords “At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software” which will show me all of them.
Now Calibre has a plugin to remove the drm, it works 99 times out of 100.