DRM-Free Publishers & Stores

Books you actually own — no restrictions, no lock-in, readable on any device.

Every store and publisher below sells or distributes e-books without DRM protection — verified as of 2024. You can read them in BookReader, or any other app, and keep them forever. Learn more about DRM →

Free Archives & Libraries

Standard Ebooks ⭐ Beautifully typeset, meticulously proofread public domain classics — free Project Gutenberg The original DRM-free archive — 70,000+ books, all free Internet Archive: Texts Over 2,000,000 books and documents available free Open Library One webpage for every book ever published — borrow or download free Wikibooks Free educational textbooks from the Wikimedia Foundation Wikisource 635,000+ free texts in English — literature, history, law, and more Internet Sacred Text Archive Religious, mythological, and esoteric texts from around the world Library of Congress Public domain digital collection from the US national library Project Gutenberg Australia Titles in the public domain in Australia Project Gutenberg Canada Titles in the public domain in Canada Project Runeberg Nordic and Scandinavian literature, free OpenStax Peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks — free

Book Stores

Smashwords The largest distributor of independent DRM-free ebooks Weightless Books ⭐ DRM-free sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and literary fiction from indie presses — EPUB, PDF, MOBI Book View Café Authors' cooperative — sells ebooks without DRM or an EULA ManyBooks 50,000+ free and low-cost DRM-free ebooks in multiple formats Planet eBook Classic and contemporary titles, free to download E-Books Directory 10,000+ free ebooks organized in 700+ categories DigiLibraries Large catalog of free ebooks across many genres Unglue.it Crowdfunds DRM-free books, some under Creative Commons licenses Ediciones Babylon Spanish-language DRM-free titles Humble Bundle — Books Rotating bundles of DRM-free ebooks — pay what you want, support charity

Publishers

Baen Ebooks Science fiction & fantasy publisher — DRM-free since day one, many books free The Pragmatic Bookshelf Developer and technology books — all sold DRM-free Packt Publishing Technology and programming books — DRM-free editions available Leanpub Self-publishing platform for technical and non-fiction books — all DRM-free Carina Press Romance and genre fiction imprint — publishes DRM-free digital editions Tor Books Major science fiction and fantasy publisher — committed to DRM-free since 2012