Thread: A Leaked Contract Reveals that Amazon Insists on DRM
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Old 10-11-2013, 08:45 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by alansplace View Post


The section in question:

"Unless we mutually agree otherwise, we will use DRM in
connection with the download of the eBooks, and we may use any
available digital book DRM technolog"

...simply says that the default is for Amazon to apply DRM. Hugh Howey is a prime example of no DRM on any of his Amazon distributed books.

"Amazon Insists on DRM" is codswallop!
Except that if you had read the entire post you would have noticed that Jeff Bezos says that Amazon only uses DRM when content creators insist on it. He is contradicted by this contract clause, which as you say defaults in favor of DRM.
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