As a Linux user, it is important to me to be able to acquire e-books in the form of actual files, such as EPUB or MOBI. None of the big book vendors like Amazon or Kobo have PC apps for Linux and they don't make their books available in readable formats for Linux e-readers like Bookworm and Calibre.

This has been a source of much consternation to me, and since I want more options beyond the Kindle web app (which is my only convenient way to read e-books sold by a big vendor) I am looking for other possibilities...

One author let me know that he sells EPUB versions of his books directly, although he unfortunately got little traction with it. And I found that the publisher No Starch Press does the same, as well as offering PDF and MOBI formats.

Do you guys know of any more authors or publishers who do this? It would be a great service to not just Linux users, but anyone who wants to truly own a copy of their e-books while still obtaining them legally and in support of the authors and publishers.

Hey fellows,

I am a cyber sec student who wants to read books, but only publishers are of no starch press. I have heard that these books are very awesome, but the problem is they are tooo expensive, I have a bookstore near me who sells their books (but I know he downloads pirated copies and prints them), else their books are very expensive for me. How can I read the books, could anyone guide me? I tried to search used books but still they are expensive (30$ with delivery to my country) how can i get that knowledge? Please help. And also I would prefer hard-copies because I cannot read continoulsy in PDFs. If I could get the permission to print the given PDFs for only personal use that would be great.

I mean is there a person or organization, who buys books and give them to students for free/minimal charges? Without piracy?