Ebook publishers are repeating the mistakes made by the music industry, in mangling their offerings with very obstructive DRM. This is particularly ironic when companies produce electronic versions of books o Linux and free software in a format which cannot then be read on a PC using free operating systems.

A notable exception to this is O'Reilly, who supply all their ebook titles in DRM-free PDF, Epub and .mobi formats. However, sometimes I want to read something a little less techy.

Does anyone know of any other publishers who are taking the high road? I would be particularly interested in DRM-free sci-fi titles in .mobi format (which display better than PDFs on my phone).*

* Actually, my phone is Symbian based, and could handle DRM'd files. I just refuse to buy them.

Good on yer. But note: GIYF.

http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/1...ee-publishers/

I understand that amazon has a "drmfree" tag, so there may be some there.

Publishers are getting killed and they're old school businesses. You're going to see a lot more ebooks out there with the kindle and the like but very few will be drm free. Just not in the cards for the next 5 years. IMO.