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Originally Posted by Hitch
Ironically, this additional layer of DRM--actually a session key--is killing ME. I produce ebooks (epub & mobi) for author clients, mostly rights-reverted. I have more than several books out there that I made in Sigil and converted to mobi via Calibre. Now, the ebooks, after being uploaded via Amazon DTP, won't open in Kindle for PC, due to the DRM (for which, amazingly, Amazon has had the nerve to blame ME!!). They open fine in Kindle, but not KFPC, which, of course, is the ONLY PLATFORM MY NON-TECHIE CLIENTS HAVE.
So they cannot "see" the product that they've bought from me when they try to download a purchased copy from Amazon. Of course, I send them their own epubs and mobi's, but naturally they think I'm screwing them because Amazon told them that--are you ready for THIS--my DRM, MY DRM--is making the books unreadable in KFPC.
My poor clients can't even upload Firefox, FFS, much less understand what I'm talking about when I try to explain what's happening. All they know is that, being non-Kindle-owners, they cannot see the product they bought from me and then bought again from Amazon and downloaded--just to "see" it from Amazon, rather than the mobi I sent them.
It's making me insane. Seriously.
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Hitch
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If you don't want problems with DRM, don't ask Amazon to add the DRM to the file, assuming you're uploading through dtp.amazon.com. Of coruse, if you're still going through mobipocket.com, DRM is compulsory.