No question. If you order an ebook directly from Cooperative Press, unless otherwise stated (and believe me, there would have to be a lot of convincing on our end to get it to happen), there will NOT be DRM on the file. We say this now, clearly and for the record, because digital editions of our title The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design will soon be available in Apple’s iBookstore, and also directly from Amazon for the Kindle.

Cooperative Press can’t control what Apple and Amazon do, DRM-wise (in the case of Amazon, it’s financial suicide for us not to submit to their DRM preferences, as it slashes our royalties from 70% to 35%), but we can control what we do here, and we choose not to add DRM to our files. We trust you, our customers, supporters and friends, to do the right thing and respect our copyrights, and so we don’t see the need to tack an extra layer of something-that-could-go-wrong on.

Speaking of ebooks, if you ordered the ebook edition of The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design, the updated file was sent out today, and in addition, part one of many conversations between Knitgrrl Guide author Shannon Okey and author Donna Druchunas about ebooks went live on Donna’s site today.