Any good sites for e-book bundles besides Humble Bundle?
Hello,
I want to pick your brains for recommendations for good, cheap e-book bundles. I buy a lot of my e-books the old fashioned way, one at a time, but Humble Bundle book bundles has scored me a ton of great reading for cheap, including the entire Wheel of Time series, the entirety of Discworld, lots of Comic and Manga bundles, and such, usually for $18 a bundle which is a crazy discount. I'm very happy with them and will continue to refresh their bundles regularly, but my desire to hoard books is great and I'd love to know if there's any similar sites out there regularly offering those kinds of sales.
My only strict requirement is said books have to be either DRM-Free or (the very trivially-cracked) Adobe DRM. I'm also looking specifically to purchase books, I know libraries etc are really cool (and also easy to crack) but I get a lot of enjoyment from owning the books I own (and don't feel good about cracking library copies, I don't judge anyone else for doing so but I'm privileged to have the ability to easily afford my books and figure I should do my part, even if my part is heavily discounted ha).
As an aside, for anyone who doesn't already know, humble bundle normally has at least half a dozen book bundles at any given time, and there's some crazy value on occasion (see above), would highly recommend if you're into ebooks!
There are no better places to get ebooks than Anna's Archive or Z-Library. Read what you want, then if you want to, pay for a copy afterwards.
Seriously, there's no reason to jump through all these weird and cringe hoops like digital lending or DRM cracking just to be able to own a digital copy of a book. Just download the book from a shadow library and then, if you want:
There's no reason to pay for an ebook before you read it. There's especially no reason to waste your time dealing with poor commercial services when shadow libraries are faster, easier, and free.
See my other two comments on the topic for more:
I wish every artist had something like this on their site. A simple 'I stole your shit, here's ten bucks' option.
Obvious out of the way thing first, check if the book you are interested in is available on Libby or Hoopla through your local library if it’s available to you there.
Ebooks, what comes to mind is Storybundle or Fanatical depending on your particular niche.
DRM free comics I know a little better. Google Play Books and GlobalComix sells DRM free copies of Saga and other Image titles. I have a code for a free week of their GlobalComix Gold subscription if that’s something you’re interested in, but you should just be able to buy a PDF off their website for your own use as well.
Thank you! I didn't realize Fanatical also did book bundles, I'll definitely keep an eye on them. And thanks for the golden roll tip, I'd never heard of that site but glad to have a place to get Saga again! Now I just have to come to terms with the fact that volumes are $16 each, they know what they got ha
You could always download them from a shadow archive, such as Anna's (link is always updated on Wikipedia, and vetted/trusted) and if you want to give back, buy the non-DRM copies from another shop at the same time.
Another random tangent, but does anyone know how to get Saga comic series DRM-free? The only storefront I can find is Google books, but the downloadable DRM-free copies have some pretty severe formatting issues that require hacky calibre editing. I got vol 1-10 in a humble bundle and those copies were perfect, so I know they exist in the world, but idk where!