The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops

Julie Setele is a professional nerd, Julie can most often be found under a pile of cats.

Excessively educated, Julie earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and women’s studies from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; a master’s and a doctoral degree in sociology (with a designated emphasis in feminist theory and research) from the University of California, Davis; and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Julie serves as a User Experience and Outreach Librarian at SUNY Buffalo State University’s Butler Library, where they curate a zine collection and run the Social Justice Book Club.

Julie's zines are usually available in both screen and print-friendly versions.

Twisted Ink is an small online literary magazine who publish a variety of forms, including the poetic, fiction, hybrid and creative-nonfiction.

Established in 2024 to publish and promote poetic voices, Twisted Ink is particularly interested in the grotesque, the political, and the intersection of public and private. Each online magazine adheres to a particular theme, which will be revealed on the opening up of submission periods.

The magazine is run from the North of England.

On Spec Magazine is a respected Canadian quarterly journal of literature of the fantastic.

Specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Magic Realism and other genres, On Spec offers new works by emerging and established writers in every issue.

CloisterFox is a bi-annual zine of British speculative fiction.

You will find the stories that creep uninvited along quiet corridors. Stories unnoticed by shoppers hurrying by. Secrets, miracles, and universes behind locked tenement doors. Ghosts and gallows. The dress in the attic as seen through a haze of neon.

Tell me things I don’t know, says the fox. Tell me the dreams you can’t forget. Tell me strange things.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye (3LBE) is an online magazine of speculative fiction, bringing you stories of horror, wonder, and the weird.

3LBE launched in 1999, and has published authors Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Kelly Barnhill, Mari Ness, Kristi DeMeester, Gwendolyn Kiste, Cody Goodfellow, Nadia Bulkin, and Kealan Patrick Burke, among others. Each issue features four short stories. Beginning with issue 20, they offer audio readings, ebook formats, and online (responsive) format for mobile devices.

They publish thrice yearly, with a print anthology every other year.

All issues of the magazine are free online. Please consider different ways to support their publication and its authors, by donating and spreading the word.

Penumbric is a magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow.

This edge is best exemplified by two things.

Speculative works that look at our world (or other worlds) in new ways, whether that be peering into the future, a look sideways at an alternative or fantastic past or present, or a hard stare into the face of horror or madness (does that sound like old eps of The Twilight Zone? Well, if that's the comparison, I'm fine with that)

A diversity of viewpoints, representing not only multiple cultures but subcultures, exploring issues of race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, and many things I haven't thought of.

Archive of the Odd is a zine that celebrates the weird and wonderful both in terms of story and format.

They want to provide stories that engage readers and inspire them to look at both fiction and the world around them in a new way. To date, it has published four magazine issues, seven free-to-read stories, and one novella, Cat Voleur’s Revenge Arc.

Archive of the Odd is always looking for ways to expand how stories are shared, as well as storytelling itself. One way it does this is through Found Fiction. Found fiction is a catchall term for found document, found footage, epistolary, neo-epistolary, and (in some cases) ergodic literature. These are stories told in a “non-fiction” format, such as letters, transcripts, websites, “lost media,” etc.

BubbleSort Zines are zine series filled with stories and hand-drawn art and diagrams.

They cover topics like circuits, sorting, memory, cryptography, image processing, and data structures. Though the intended audience is high school students (think Hello Ruby's teenage sister), the creator, Amy, was surprised by how many adults are also subscribers!

Amy is a programmer and alumni of MIT, Honda, the University of Tokyo Igarashi Lab, and various Bay Area startups. It's been a life long dream of Amy's to create a series of zines that cover computer science concepts in an accessible way, targeted towards people who don't think computer science is for them.

Hog River Press is a print and online poetry journal edited on the banks of the Hog River in Connecticut.

They print magnificent poems, engender conversation between poets, and indulge in the occasional crazed paper arts collaboration.

The press is run by Kathryn James, a rare book librarian and book historian, and Julian Aiken, a poet and librarian.

Lunate is a literary journal founded in 2019, and based in Manchester, UK.

A home for remarkable writing, Lunate was co-founded and edited by Gary Kaill and Hannah Clark. Their associate editor is Claire Carroll. They publish two editions each year.

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror!

Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, The Dark Magazine is a great way for fans of dark fantasy and horror to get their teeth into new stories, discover new authors, and support the people who publish them.

WAYSTATION is an amateur magazine that seeks to discover, inspire, and publish emerging authors who are enthusiastic about the tradition of "space opera."

Space opera is a pulp genre of science fiction, known for grand, epic adventures, interstellar empires, and complex character relationships. Set against a vast cosmic backdrop, space operas explore themes of heroism, warfare and militarism, political intrigue, and occasionally elements of cosmic horror, as seen in the Aliens movies or fictional universes such as Warhammer 40k. Classic authors include C.L. Moore (Northwest of Earth stories) Isaac Asimov (Foundation series), E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Lensman series), Frank Herbert (Dune series), and Joe Haldeman (Forever War). These works captivate readers with thrilling journeys through the numberless stars, weaving human drama into the sublime vastness of the cosmos. Published by Spiral Tower Press.

WHETSTONE is an amateur magazine that seeks to discover, inspire, and publish emerging authors who are enthusiastic about the tradition of “pulp sword and sorcery.”

Writers in this tradition include (but are not limited to) the following: Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, David C. Smith, and many more. “Pulp sword and sorcery” emphasizes active protagonists, supernatural menaces, and preindustrial (mostly ancient and medieval) settings. Some “pulp sword and sorcery” straddles the line between historical and fantasy fiction; at Whetstone, however, we emphatically prefer “secondary world settings,” other worlds liberated from the necessity of historical accuracy. Published by Spiral Tower Press.

The magazine will be on hiatus until 2025, but issues are still available to download for free.

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.

Low-tech Magazine was founded in November 2007. Since 2018, the magazine also runs on a solar powered server. The website is also available in Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and Polish. Low-tech Magazine publishes at most 12 well-researched stories per year.

In 2023, Low Tech also launched a thematic book series. These books open up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme rather than chronologically.

Between the Scanlines is a fortnightly fanzine launched in October 2023.

Inspired by 90s anime and video game fanzines, Between the Scanlines captures their spirit and passion for video games and media history. There are typically fourteen to eighteen pages in each A5 issue. 

There's a little bit of everything in each issue as they peek between the Scalines into retro gaming history, trivia, magazine covers, reviews and retrospectives, personal stories, and reader community contributions.

Issues are also available in black & white for printing at home.

Andromeda Spaceways is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine. Australia’s home of awesome speculative fiction.

ASM publishes four digital issues per year packed with stories, interviews, and reviews. Occasionally, ASM also produces a print-only anthology of a year’s best stories.

The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors.

It is designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp (and other social messaging platforms), and has become the continent's most widely distributed newspaper.​

The Continent is published by the All Protocol Observed, a registered non-profit based in South Africa. It was initially funded by the editorial team, but has since attracted donor and commercial funding. 

The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature, culture & arts with the aim to publish creatives in all stages of their career.

Named and conceptualised by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury in July 2022, she invited fellow writer-poet and friend, Ankit Raj Ojha, onboard in October 2022. The two have since been editing the magazine, expanding and developing it, and building its foundations to humbly serve the literary community in the years to come.

Debug is a quarterly publication designed to help independent game developers and publishers get their titles seen by a passionate and focused audience.

Each issue of Debug magazine gives the reader a complete view of the indie gaming community, featuring reviews and previews for modern consoles and PC, as well as retro consoles/computers, and mobiles. Debug is a professionally produced magazine with very high production values, created by a team with decades of experience in gaming journalism, having worked for some of the UK’s best-selling and most respected gaming magazines.

Established in February of 2021 by Jasen Bacon, HyphenPunk is a magazine that focuses on the human condition through the lens of the postmodern.

Cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, solarpunk, and other -punks are engines that allow an aspect of what it means to be alive to be examined in a microcosm. Sometimes that means high action, sometimes that means deep philosophy. It always means a great story.

Stories appear online twice a month, while single issues are available to buy direct.

Fodongo is a Free Culture, Indie Comics zine project edited and put together by Emiliano Carrasco “Jectoons” for Jectoons.net.

The aim of the project is two-fold: to support independent comic artists and to advocate for and normalize the free sharing of culture, in the form of comics.

Free Culture refers to cultural works that have been “freed” by their authors, so that those who experience the works can participate in them.

Interzone publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet.

Fantastika at its finest, delivered electronically every month.

Interzone was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Press and edited by Gareth Jelley.

IZ Digital, the online sister-zine of Interzone magazine, publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the world.

Becoming a member of the IZ Digital Ko-fi gives you exclusive EPUB editions of all new IZ Digital stories.

Supporting IZ Digital at any level helps the editor, Gareth Jelley, publish the work of more brilliant writers and artists from all over the planet.

Psychopomp is an indie publisher of otherworldly stories and rad, gothy essays.

Based in Vermont, this small press also publishes a little magazine about death you may have heard of called, The Deadlands.

Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.

We aim to publish works which use elements from science fiction, fantasy, or horror to illuminate the different ways that we experience our selves and our world.

That might mean finding a metaphor to express a feeling, or a setting which reflects how your brain works sometimes, or turning a trope on its head to explore a different perspective.

The Merry Mushmen is the home of Knock!, the old-school tabletop fantasy roleplaying magazine.

KNOCK! is edited by Éric Nieudan and published by Olivier Revenu. Dubbed “an Adventure Gaming Bric-à-Brac and a Compendium of Miscellanea for Old School RPGs,” KNOCK! showcases breathtaking layouts, dazzling color, and a barrage of articles, essays, tables, rules, maps, monster stats, and adventures.

The DRM-free RPG bundle service, Bundle of Holding, says that

"Every overstuffed 200+-page issue features the most audacious designers in the Old School Revival."

and suggests you

"Keep these lavish ebooks close by for perusing, daydreaming, and prepping your next session."

Well worth a purchase for RPG fans.

Lucent Dreaming, an independent magazine for emerging authors and artists worldwide.

Based in Cardiff, Lucent Dreaming publishes their magazine twice a year, filled with beautiful, strange and surreal short stories, poetry and artwork from contributors worlwide.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery is a short fiction magazine dedicated to the Sword & Sorcery sub-genre of Fantasy speculative fiction. Each issue features several original short stories each with their own B&W illustration, as well as non-fiction articles and interviews covering subject matter related to the past, present, and future of Sword & Sorcery.

New Edge takes the genre’s virtues of its outsider protagonists, thrilling energy, wondrous weirdness, and a large body of classic tales, then alloys inclusivity, mutual creator support, a positive fan community, and enthusiastic promotion of new works into the mix.

The Funambulist magazine hopes to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales.

Through articles, interviews, artworks, and design projects, they are assembling an ongoing archive for anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles.

Rust & Moth is a literary journal featuring imaginative and engaging poetry.

Since 2008 Rust & Moth have dedicated themselves to discovering new writers and presenting their work alongside evocative graphic design. Their editors love both the vitality of electronic publication and the feeling of holding a quality print edition in hand.

Past digital issues are available to download for free.

Terror awaits...

Cosmic Horror Monthly is a tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox.

Each issue is a combination of classic cosmic horror with bold new weird and a vintage look and feel. Fans should also explore The Crypt, CHM's archive of public domain cosmic horror tales, all in one place.

Formats: ePub, Mobi, PDF

The online lit magazine and bookshop, Ellipsis, stocks beautifully written fiction & creative nonfiction. 1,000 words or fewer, any genre.

Based in Birmingham, UK, Ellipsis love stories that make us forget where we are, stories that introduce us to people, places and things we’ve never seen before and stories that stick with us long after we leave them.

As well as being able to buy and download the magazine, you can also buy single author ebooks.

Fusion Fragment is a speculative fiction magazine.

Originally founded by Cavan Terrill in 2007, it published nineteen issues online through 2013. Cavan re-launched the new-and-improved Fusion Fragment in 2020.

Issues are pay-what-you-want, including free, and more recently include two PDF formats to reduce the cost of printing at home.

Founded in 2010, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is an open-access, researcher-led, peer-reviewed academic journal.

The journal aims to publish original and specialised contributions to the field of comics scholarship from multidisciplinary and media-specific perspectives. The Comics Grid promote innovative comics scholarship where the writing is energetic and theoretically and interpretively bold, and that presents specialised knowledge in accessible and engaging forms. It also considers submissions that explore the ways in which comics can be used for scholarly purposes. 

The journal has peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed sections. All claims expressed in articles published by this journal are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers.

Science Fiction and Fantasy from Wales.

Gwyllion is a non-profit, bi-annual genre fiction semiprozine which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror from Wales.

They publish two online issues a year as well as a limited run of physical copies.

Fantasy Magazine is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre.

In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.

Formats: ePub, Mobi, PDF

Grimscribe Press is the fruition of editor/author Jon Padgett's longtime dream of creating a publication house dedicated to the work of Thomas Ligotti and the authors who have influenced and been influenced by him.

Vastarien is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. Its spirit is captured by a key passage from Ligotti’s classic short story “Vastarien,” telling of a special book that embodies an impossible otherworld... "Nightmare Made Normal."

The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork, and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Public interest and support have proved to be intense and widespread.

Shado -  See. Hear. Act. Do. -  is a lived-experience led community of artists, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice.

shado is an online and print magazine born out of a frustration at the lack of space for people to take control of their own stories. We believe that those with lived experience of a topic or injustice are best placed to advocate for meaningful change within that space: shado is a platform for these people. We also didn't think there were enough platforms for different fields to work in collaboration towards social justice – so, with shado, we want to bring a network of people together to cultivate a culture-led system change.

Hexagon is an online magazine created to take readers to fantastic worlds and to meet incredible characters.

Hexagon specialize in the weird, the wondrous, and the whimsical, and represents a diverse community of authors and artists who are passionate about short form speculative fiction. They currently accept both English and French prose and poetry.

Each issue is available to download for free.

Arcadia Page is best known for her book, Idealist Dreams: How I Learned to Plan as an INFP and her finished webcomic, Mascara.

She also writes articles that encourage sensitive, creative, and intuitive individuals to understand themselves and utilize the best of their abilities.

First published in 2007, Flash Fiction Online is an online professional ezine.

It celebrates this unique form of writing by presenting its readers with brief, beautiful, and dynamic flash fiction — complete stories told in 500-1000 words — across a range of speculative and literary genres.

Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in Fewer Words.

Buy individual monthly issues direct, or subscribe through Weightless Books. They publish a new story every Friday and ebooks of monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.

The Deadlands is a new monthly speculative fiction magazine.

We will publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It will be a journey into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.

Changeling Press publishes Contemporary, Sci-Fi Futuristic, and Paranormal Romance in digital format.

Also home to the Changeling Inside ezine

Unwinnable is a website and digital magazine, founded in 2010 to provide a different kind of cultural criticism.

"We love to read about different perspectives, so we set out to collect a diverse group of contributors, amateur and veteran alike, to tell their stories."

Home of Unwinnable Monthly magazine, Exploits and other digital magazines, books, and comics, this is a treasure trove of content!

Formats may vary by product type.

Neon Hemlock Press is a small press based in Washington, DC.

They are an emerging purveyor of speculative fiction, queer chapbooks, & literary candles.

Their e-book collection is small, but very interesting! Their shop also includes a number of zines, mainly the opening issues, with more sure to come.

Omenana is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.

Omenana is the Igbo word for divinity – it also loosely translates as “culture” – and embodies our attempt to recover our wildest stories. We are looking for well-written speculative fiction that bridges the gap between past, present and future through imagination and shakes us out of the corner we have pushed ourselves into.

Issues are free to download.

Werewolves Versus is an ongoing digital anthology that pits werewolves against a different physical, cultural or ideological foe in each issue.

Werewolves might be up against Christmas, food, 1950s Americana, fashion, or professional sports. Our goal is to promote the creation and distribution of entertaining and diverse content centered on everyone’s favourite monster, the werewolf.

Each issue is available as pay-what-you want digital download, with a minimum cost of $1. Proceeds from each sale are shared with that issue’s contributors.

Undertow Publications is a celebrated independent press in Canada dedicated to publishing original and unique genre fiction of exceptional literary merit.

Since 2009 they’ve been publishing anthologies, collections, and novellas in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBook formats. Their books have won the Shirley Jackson Award; the British Fantasy Award; and been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

"We are endearingly weird, and proud of it."

They're also home to the new Weird Horror Magazine, launching this year.

PaperBound Magazine is an online magazine for the young, and the young at heart.

They are dedicated to showcasing authors and illustrators for children’s and young adult fiction and strive to deliver inspiring content, uplifting stories, and top tips for young and aspiring writers yet to burst on to the literary scene.

Wherever you are on your path to publication, you can be sure to find something useful within their pages.

They publish every quarter of the year and you can access their current issues from the website.

Malefaction is an Edinburgh-based literary crime fiction magazine, founded in 2019 by Napier MA Creative Writing graduates Katie Griffiths and Lauren Mulvihill. 

Malefaction accept works in all genres, so long as they follow their Golden Rule: each piece must feature a crime, or be related to crime in some way (e.g. a courtroom setting, a forensic scientist protagonist, etc.). 

Crime is everywhere in fiction. Crimes often serve as catalysts for stories across genres: from Sci-Fi to Fantasy, Horror to Romance, crime is one of the most flexible plot drivers out there. Malefaction want you to explore the huge potential of crime fiction through genre blending (although we do accept pure crime stories too!) Fiction is an ideal place to examine questions of morality, justice, and deviance.

Malefaction is a queer-owned and female-run publication.

HackSpace magazine is the new monthly magazine for people who love to make things and those who want to learn.

Grab some duct tape, fire up a microcontroller, ready a 3D printer and hack the world around you!

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

The MagPi  is the official Raspberry Pi magazine.

Written for the community, it is packed with Pi-themed projects, computing and electronics tutorials, how-to guides, and the latest community news and events.

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

Magazines are free to download.

Wireframe is a new fortnightly magazine that lifts the lid on video games.

In every issue, they looking at how games are made, who makes them, and even guide you through the process of making your own.

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

Magazines are free to download.

Planet Scumm is a tri-annual science-fiction magazine, published by Spark & Fizz Books.

The publication was born out of a reverence for the bizarre science fiction magazines of the ’30s, ’50s, and ’60s. Their operation is set up to discover, curate, and amplify the new digital vanguard of science fiction writers passing through the semi-pro market.

24/03/2020: ALL E-BOOKS ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
(but the pay-what-you-want option is available, if you want to help keep your favourite intergalactic publishers afloat)

Scarlet Ferret is an independent DRM-free bookshop, selling hand-picked Special Edition ebooks by selected authors in science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fantasy, crime and more, as well as digital magazines, such as Interzone.

Founded by Kevin Beynon, creator of Libreture and The Epubizer, Scarlet Ferret's books cover a range of genres from sci-fi and fantasy, horror and steampunk, to historical fiction, crime and non-fiction. Scarlet Ferret is a curated ebookshop, every title read and loved before hitting the shelves. Above all, expect to discover books and authors you haven't met before.

Each book purchased at Scarlet Ferret comes with exciting downloadable extras, such as additional artwork or desktop wallpaper based on the book cover; a recommended playlist to listen along to while reading the book; or even a map of the setting depicted in the story.

Ebb Magazine is an entirely free online magazine and platform.

Ebb critically assesses global politics and problems facing the working class, whether these are theoretical and practical obstacles facing left parties, the rise of fascism, or environmental disaster.

Get My Comics sell both physical and digital comics as well as the popular comic magazine, ComicScene.

Whether you are an avid follower of a couple of titles, or 50… if you love variant covers, or hate them… if you ever wondered how the hell you’re supposed to get all the parts in a crossover story when you only pick up one title from it… this site is for you.

Not all comics are available in digital format.

Established in 2016 Aurelia Leo is an independent publisher and bookseller.

Located in Louisville, Kentucky they specialize in diverse speculative fiction, namely: horror, fantasy, science fiction, alternate history, and paranormal romance. Their flagship titles are Helios Quarterly Magazine, Selene Quarterly Magazine, and Invictus: Quarterly Comics and Illustrations.

They also stock paper books, so check that the title you want is available in a digital format.

Created by Sandra Alvarez and Caroline Quintanar, The Medieval Magazine is an exclusive digital magazine on the Middle Ages.

Currently running at 24 issues, each is available to buy individually, as a rolling subscription or as season or full-year bundles.

Founded by Catch Business and Elle Nash in 2015, Witch Craft publish an annual literary magazine every spring focused on writing that is moving, dangerous and subversive. submissions open in the fall.

Witch Craft Magazine & Sad Spell Press shares work that amplifies what it feels like to break apart from or find a safe space within a society constantly trying to define us.

The digital edition is heavily discounted from the print edition.

The on-going mission of Luna Station Quarterly is to display the vast and varied talents of female-identified speculative fiction writers.

We believe that women have a unique and universal voice in fiction and we aim to get it heard.

This idea was conceived by founding editor, Jennifer Lyn Parsons, after spending time in the trenches of the Star Wars fan fiction community and being exposed to the particular and unique writing styles of the women and girls who posted there.

Three Crows Magazine is a quarterly Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine that includes short stories up to 4,000 words, book, film, and video game reviews, and interviews with writers, editors, and influencers in the world of SFF.

With so many underrepresented voices and stories untold in the genres that give the broadest creative freedom - it is only natural to give the platform to these voices. That is our goal.

In the tumultuous times we live in, literary fantasy and science-fiction give a chance to reflect on real life, to analyze it, and propose a way to solve the conflicts. Or just have fun reading about devouring bodies of unsuspecting astronauts by omnipotent, Lovecraftian monsters.

Red Sun is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine.

The stories can be dark. They can be violent. They can be gory. They can be humorous. They can be weird. They can be political. They can be speculative. They can be populated with any culture, any religion. With men, women, LGBT, black, white, or brown.

Each issue also includes interviews, articles, and reviews.

Khabar Keslan is an independently run, volunteer-based, primarily English-language online review featuring art and critique relating to Middle East, Africa, and/or South (East) Asia (MESAEA).

This is a dedicated platform for dissidents, artists, critics, and those on the margins.

We are deeply unimpressed by the representation of the region; hence our name, “Khabar Keslan,” or lazy news. Coverage of these regions tends to emphasize violence, chaos, and corruption. But the region is also complex, beautiful, and wrought with passionate voices.

As much as destruction characterizes the region, so does creation.

The Eisner-nominated monthly digital magazine celebrating the comics medium.

PanelxPanel features a range of critics and comics creators in each issue, looking at themes, craft and why comics are a unique medium for storytelling. Edited by Strip Panel Naked's Hass Otsmane-Elhaou.

ArabLit (arablit), or Arabic Literature (in Translation), was founded by M Lynx Qualey in 2009, and has developed into a source of daily news and views on Arab and Arabic literature and translation.

It has been used in classrooms, publishing houses, translators' & readers' homes, and elsewhere around the world. In November 2018 ArabLit launched their journal, ArabLit Quarterly.

ArabLit Quarterly brings together short stories and poetry by exciting Arabic-language writers translated into English, as well as interviews, news and much more in each issue.

Kabaka Magazine believes that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex lives are part of the African experience and culture.

As such LGBTQI literature is an important part of African Literature. By publishing and making it available to be read, we are affirming that LGBTQI lives are important and African, and that they deserve to live and flourish.

In Ancient Rome, an Augur was a religious official who looked for the will of the gods in the flight patterns of birds, and made predictions based on the stories they read there. In contemporary Toronto, Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes.

We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike or surreal; speculative stories that are almost realist; and, on top of that, any form of literary fantasy/science fiction/speculative fiction.

Our goal is to publish at least 75% Canadian and Indigenous content, offering new opportunities to the rich communities of speculative fiction writers in the North. And, more importantly, we’re committed to featuring intersectional narratives as represented by characters, storytelling, and, in particular, author representation.

Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality.

To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of the Kickstarter community.

A huge number of Kickstarter rewards include e-books, either as the main project outcome, or as a side-pledge for backers. Most are DRM-free.

Check specific book formats in the reward details before pledging.

itch.io is an open marketplace for independent digital creators with a focus on independent video games.

It’s a platform that enables anyone to sell the content they've created. itch.io is also a collection of some of the most unique, interesting, and independent creations you'll find on the web. We're not your typical digital storefront, with a wide range of both paid and free content, we encourage you to look around and see what you find.

The digital books sold on Itch.io are usually related to games development, games culture or or specific areas of game-related sub-culture. Enjoy!

E-books are available in a variety of formats, so check the individual product before buying.

It's not academic, but it's not stupid. It's not what you already know, but it's not a know-it-all. It's SCROLL, a magazine that explores rarely revisited parts of game history.

SCROLL is for video game fans who enjoy tracing the past, but it assumes you know the basics -- the '80s market crash, the two Super Mario 2s, what an Easter egg is -- so it digs deeper. Maybe you've played Dark Souls, but did you know about the weird games its developer made for the Xbox in Japan? How many of the classic Ninja Turtles games are as good as you remember? What do you know about the companies Artdink or Warp? 

Through straightforward writing and careful curation, you'll find the answers to those questions. Let SCROLL uncork the best.

While they stopped publishing new magazines in 2015, the back issues are fantastic and are still available to buy.

Shimmer publish contemporary fantasy short stories, with a few ventures into science fiction or horror, and the stories tend to be tinged with sorrow.

Stories from Shimmer Magazine have been reprinted in Best American Fantasy 3 and Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction, and get pretty terrific reviews.

Sadly, Shimmer is closing its doors in 2018 - ending with number 46. But they will hopefully keep their beautiful back issues available for sale.

Founded in 2011, Down & Out Books is an independent publisher of literary and crime fiction based in Tampa, Florida.

With a huge selection of books, imprints and a stable of excellent authors, Down & Out Books is a great spot for crime fiction fans. They also sell crime-fiction related magazines.

Worlds Without Master is an adventure fiction & gaming magazine and home of the Swords Without Master RPG.

As well as providing excellent games and scenarios in each issue, the magazine also contains articles and cartoons, along with beautiful full-colour artwork.

Every year, WWM runs the Epimas deal, where as well as getting a discount on their products, you can ensure that someone else gets a copy too. A great idea to help share the RPG love.

Worlds Without Master is also mentioned in a 2015 Guardian article on The joy of reading role-playing games.

Sponge is an online journal for science fiction and speculative fiction, based in the post-apocalpytic city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

They publish short stories and poetry from NZ, Australian, and Pacific writers, with a particular focus on new and emerging writers.

Issues are free to download.

Grimdark Magazine is run by people who love the grimdark direction that science fiction and fantasy seems to be taking.

Things like the Horus Heresy and the First Law series are what get our hearts hammering with excitement. There is such a wealth of talent in the sub-genre and a genuine need for an ezine that deals specifically in the grittier nature of people in futuristic or fantasy settings that we felt compelled to get this ezine up and running.

Also home to Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists.

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a free, online tri-annual magazine.

"Publishing speculative fiction (SF/F/H, the weird, slipstream, surrealism, fabulism, and more) by queer people of colour on every range of the LGBTQIA spectrum."

Anathema seeks to provide a home for marginalised writers and to fight back against the structural and institutional racism in publishing. They specifically publish the work of queer people of colour (POC)/Indigenous/Aboriginal creators.

Issues are available to buy individually or as a subscription.

Lackington’s is a speculative fiction magazine who specifically look to publish stylised prose.

We want to help widen the space for prose poetry. We’re looking for stylized prose. Not inept purple prose, of course, but controlled and well-crafted wordsmithery that reflects the story, setting, theme, atmosphere, or philosophy it seeks to describe.

Issue's are free to read online, but buying ebook copies ensures that contributors are paid and the magazine continues.

A multi-award winning speculative fiction publisher based in Australia.

Coeur de Lion's works have won:

• 3 Aurealis Awards,
• 2 Ditmars,
• a Sir Julius Vogel Award
• and a World Fantasy Award.

In 2014, they launched the free Dimension6 magazine, which

features the best new stories from established authors and fresh voices from Australia and overseas.

Futurefire is a publisher of short speculative fiction stories, poetry and art.

They publish The Future Fire, a magazine:

"...of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, Multicultural SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing."

Issues are published approximately four times a year and are available to download for free in ePub and Mobi formats.

The British comic book publisher, 2000AD have been providing DRM-free versions of their comics since 2007.

A great alternative to online comic services that don't let you download what you've bought. Along with the Rebellion bookshop they have your Dredd covered.

Tincture Journal is a quarterly e-book literary journal, featuring fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from Australia and the world.

There is no thematic focus. Our aim is to provide a space for both new and experienced writers to publish their work.

The current and previous issues are all freely available from their website.

The Scottish science fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity want:

"...stories that explore that uncertain future. We want to play around with the big ideas and the little ones. We want writers to tell us stories to inspire us, give us hope, provide some laughs. Or to scare the stuffing out of us. We want good stories: we want to be entertained, here on the Shoreline."

With contributors from all over the world, and chock full of fantastic fiction, articles and poetry, SoI is an amazing read.

Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine.

In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Nightmare can be purchased individually or as a range of subscriptions.

Lightspeed is a science fiction and fantasy magazine.

In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. No subject is off-limits, and we encourage our writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

A small selection of very interesting titles make Mythic Delirium a great publisher to keep an eye on.

"Mythic Delirium Books, the micropress run by Mike and Anita Allen, specializes in speculative fiction and poetry, with a penchant for writing that’s challenging to classify."

They also publish the digital fiction and poetry journal, Mythic Delirium.

The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts.

There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

FIYAH rises from the ashes of the Black literary tradition started by Fire!! in 1926.

We aren’t here for respectability. We’re here to ask what it means to be Black and extraordinary. We are a place to showcase your stories and grow your career.

Part literary incubator, part middle-finger to the establishment, we know you have stories to tell, and we are here for it.

When I read my first issue of FIYAH, I expected it to be good. Instead, it was stunning!

Wildside Press mainly concentrates on reprints, books originally published between 1930 and 1990.

They have an interesting approach where they compile Megapacks around particular themes, eg. 'Sherlock Holmes', and publish them as e-books. Think of it as a bundle approach that resurrects lost titles.

A multi-genre bookshop that gives 100% of the profit to the publisher.

0s&1s ('zeroes and ones') currently sells titles from 35 different publishers and in genres ranging from cerebral, classics and drama to sci-fi, short stories and suspense. Their site is beautifully designed and the purchasing process is smooth as silk. Almost all their titles cost $6.

0s&1s also host conversations around books and their subjects. The site is well worth a read for the articles alone. A leader in how to create a modern bookshop.

Apex is a small press that publishes works of science fiction, horror, fantasy and non-fiction.

In 2004, publisher Jason Sizemore suffered an early mid-life crisis at the age of 30. Stuck in a go-nowhere city job supporting risk management software, the needed a creative outlet to offset the relentless actuarial numbers and policies he read at work everyday.

Some friends of his ran a nifty DIY saddle-stitch fantasy zine! Why not do that, he thought, except bigger. He set to work learning the basics of editing, typesetting, layout, and printing.

In the spring of 2005, he released issue one of Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest.

Apex Publications is a publisher of exceptional works of genre fiction. Its editors have a reputation an eye for talent and publishing early works of many outstanding young writers flying under the radar: Tade Thompson, Maurice Broaddus, Lavie Tidhar, Chesya Burke, Erica Satifka, Francesco Verso, and many others.

Wholly original, always brilliant, and just as wild and weird as the genres it publishes, Apex Magazine is an absolute gem.

Alix E. Harrow
Hugo Award-winning author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY

Weightless Books is an independent ebooksite devoted to DRM-free ebooks from independent presses.

Weightless Books opened (a soft opening) in March 2010 and has been growing organically ever since.

Weightless are excited by ereaders which allow the printed pages which publishers spend so long making pretty, clear, and readable, to be read onscreen—one reason why whenever possible they will always sell PDFs, particularly from design- or art-heavy publishers, though EPUB now seems to have gained dominance as the format of choice.

Weightless led off with books and zines from Small Beer Press and Blind Eye Books; now we carry lots of indie presses, many of them publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.