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Don't do that. Authors make next to nothing from their books. You don't have to support Amazon, but at least buy a paper copy or audiobook to support the author.
Unless it's J. K. Rowling. Fuck Rowling.
I remember an email I sent to Randall Munroe once, asking where I can buy his ebook "What if" without DRM.
He emailed me back that unfortunately there is no place to buy it without DRM, because of the publisher, but he also linked this comic in his email:
https://xkcd.com/488/
Here's a DRM-free copy for sale:
It'll look like this:
Once you buy this, it is truly yours. Nobody can take it away from you. You don't have to agree to any EULA to read it. No account needed, no activation, no sign-up. You can even resell your copy if you want. There are no technical restrictions on it whatsoever. You can enjoy it any time of day, anywhere in the world, and there's no need for an Internet connection.
I enjoy reading dead tree books as much as anyone, and whilest the publisher/distributor can't take it away, there are plenty of ways you can lose access to them. Fire and flood being the two obvious ones, whereas digital books can be backed up offsite. It's also easier to carry many books when they're digital compared to physical.
For books I care about I try to get both a physical and a (drm free) digital copy for the best of both world.
They asked for a DRM-free ebook. Of course a physical book lacks digital rights management.
It didn't say "e-book" when I originally wrote the reply
I don't want to fuck Rowling.
I buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don't have to. These authors aren't getting money from me because they don't offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.
I would be astonished if publishers figured out a way to put DRM on a paper copy of a book.
I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That's on me.
It might not be legal, but in my book, it is perfectly ethical to pirate a copy without DRM if you already own a legitimate copy (paper or DRM-inclusive)
I'm not buying a bunch of paper books and creating unnecessary waste just to make sure the author gets paid. I guess I could donate them but then the author loses sales that way. I'm certainly not rewarding the use of DRM by paying for it.
You can donate books to the library, you know. They're always looking for more copies of popular books and what they don't add to their collection, they'll resell them and use the money for more books.
Paper books aren't "waste" by any means as they are easily recycled.
Most authors I've heard from (through their Internet posts) don't mind libraries, but they'd rather you enjoy their books legitimately than pirate.