Comment by blcknight
8 hours ago
It hasn't changed, and I don't know why people are saying that most books don't have DRM. It is only a small minority.
Tor books is the largest publisher without it (owned by Macmillan). Otherwise everything is truly hard DRM either ACSM with epub or Kindle's. They are both more or less easily defeated though.
Kobo does carry DRM-free books, and I've never encountered DRM on any books I bought directly from authors' or publishers' websites either.
The vast majority of kobo books are still ACSM protected.
Because these are people that don’t buy the books anyway. They pirate them and put them onto their 2010 Chinese ebook reader.