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Old 07-29-2010, 06:06 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson View Post
And indie authors (which will be almost ALL authors in five years) can leave their files unprotected if they choose. Amazon doesn't care--it's the big publishers that are forcing locks on the material.
Actually, Amazon's inability to offer non-DRM books from a "big publisher" is why Baen books are not yet available at the Kindle store. This has been mentioned several times by Toni Weisskopf at the Baen Bar. I'm not sure what's the problem - technical, legal or something else but there you are.
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