'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

I just want to alleviate concerns for all my authors and prospective authors that I have never used ChatGPT, never shared anything AI, worked really hard to avoid every aspect of it, and will ABSOLUTELY NEVER upload your novels to any AI function.

I am a slow reader, but it me. I am the reader.

spread the word

THE DEADLANDS IS BACK

clear your calendar and head to the graveyard

(bring something for the crows)

settle in to read

👇

Cover art for The Deadlands #42, featuring a man hugging a tree root with weird yellow patterns spilling over his eyes and hands

New issue of @thedeadlands.com is here! weightlessbooks.com/the-deadland...

Draft2Digital: somewhat evil, I gather?
Am•zod: rather more evil
IngramSpark: IDK maybe a bit less evil
... ?

Good question! Weightless doesn't carry self-pub; we don't have the infrastructure, and I don't have time, to host, provide quality control and accounting for individual authors. We tried and it didn't work! OFC one can sell books on their own site, but what other hubs for self-pub ebooks exist?

So, thinking about this... What is the best way for a self pub author to sell DRM free ebooks? Open to any all suggestions.

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New from @pmpress.bsky.social, Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity, collected essays edited by Madeleine Hamlin and Carlos Delclós weightlessbooks.com/housing-just...

The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

Thank you!

Yes, and here's the list:

Buying ebooks with DRM isn't actually buying books, it's renting them. If you buy a print book, it's yours forever. Books don't go "obsolete". Ebooks should be the same. Don't buy ebooks with DRM.

@libreture.com has a huge list of DRM-free e-booksellers. Weightless is among them

Deregistering it messes up the DRM keys for books sold by amazon with DRM on them.

Copying DRM-free files into the documents folder over USB should work the same way it always has.
Sadly, removing DRM from ebooks you bought is much much harder than pirating them.

FWIW the last time I bought a new computer was 2011, one year after Weightless started

Despite Amazon's news, remember that your old Amazon Kindle is still perfectly good for reading ebooks!

While the Send to Kindle feature will no longer work on these older devices, you can still transfer ebooks to them over USB. It's how I transfer my ebooks from Libreture to my old Sony Reader.

The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

If you don't want to buy your ebooks from Amazon, you can buy from hundreds of other e-bookshops instead!

Here's my regularly updated list of over 500 (so far) online shops that sell DRM-free #ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.

All legit! All personally checked by me! 💜

Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles

Thing is, you do not actually get to "download" books with Kindle; you merely get access to them online.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oh, just to clarify: you're legally allowed to buy other books and magazines other than ours while on Weightless Books.

This is your pulchritudinous reminder that you can also buy Issue Two via @weightlessbooks.bsky.social to help us AND them keep going.

weightlessbooks.com/adventitious...

Anathema: Spec from the Margins Relaunches locusmag.com/2026/04...

This is the article I used as a jumping-off point to figure out how to jailbreak my Kindle Keyboard! Now I have KOReader and Amazon can never force me to stop using my old device.

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books"

www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Thank you for being a longtime Kindle customer. We're glad our devices have served you well for as long as they have. Starting May 20, 2026 — 14 to 18 years after their initial launches — we are discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier. Here's what this means for you: * You can continue to read books already downloaded on these devices, but you will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date. * If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way. Affected devices include Kindle 1st and 2nd Generation, Kindle DX and DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation.

PSA: Amazon is discontinuing all access for pre-2013 Kindles. Books can no longer be sent to those devices at all. Man, fuuuuck Amazon. #Booksky

Cover art for Fight Like a Girl, featuring a cartoon woman in fatigues holding a gun surrounded by pictures of a laptop, pen, camera, pisto, peace sign, knife, grenade

Cover for Hand of the King's Evil by Chaz Brenchley, featuring four figures riding a magic carpet over a mountain castle, surrounded by pictures of swords, hooded and masked women, and genii

Cover for THE UNICORN KEEPER by Helen L. Brady, featuring a gold unicorn symbol, a loch, and the northern lights

Cover for THE SWORD GARDEN by Peadar O Guilin, featuring an obelisk, a blue glowing ring of energy, and a hooded, green-glowing-eyed figure

A bevy of new titles came in today from @wtpress.bsky.social, by authors incl. @chazbrenchley.bsky.social, @thecallya.bsky.social, @hierath77.bsky.social, @rozc.bsky.social!
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Cover art by Silas Goewey for BCS #455, featuring a tower of weird stacked blocks spilling golden liquid into a pool

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Alex Irvine and Bee Hyland: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

The sea gives and it takes, its flow constant, its tides relentless.

In ‘The Sea Child’ by Justin Wesley Ferguson in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, an eerie child haunts a bereft mother with something hard to name: an absent presence, a present absence, an ocean where a person should be.

#fantasy #sff

Cover art for Clarkesworld #235, featuring a huge spaceship under construction at a shipyard

Cover art for Forever #135, featuring a stylized star

April issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com and Forever are here! weightlessbooks.com/2026/04/

Dirty Magick Magazine Volume Two Issue Twenty About Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Twenty Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. Brown...

No fooling: The April issue of Dirty Magick magazine is now available at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social Subscribe if you can!

Gotta catch 'em all!

Cover art for Adventitious 2, featuring a skeleton horse adorned with colorful flowers

Cover for Locus April 2026 issue, featuring some geometric lines and shapes on a black background, with Rebecca Roanhorse, John Chu and Tananarive Due featured.

Cover for Flash Fiction Online #151, featuring a spaceship blasting through a nebula

Cover for The Dark #131, featuring a withered hand clutching a voodoo doll

New, April issues of 9 magazines this morning and more on the way! @smallwondersmag.com @locusmag.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @lightspeedmagazine.com @adventitiouswords.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @cdbrown.bsky.social @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/2026/04/

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Hey, did you know we're doing a subscription drive right now? It's true! Subscribe now, and get access to the subscriber's corner on our shiny discord, stories and poems in your inbox on the regular, and the joy of supporting poetry and short fiction!

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We have different subscription tiers now! Hit that button!

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