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Old 09-09-2010, 04:08 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
Supposedly it's only true for pubs who upload through Mobipocket (which all the big publishers and some of the smaller ones do). I'm not even sure if there's another option for the big pubs to upload titles. There's no reason there couldn't be and if pubs wanted to do DRM free they could force Amazon's hand, but I don't think the pubs want to go DRM free.
Baen, BeWrite (which can't sell at Amazon because they only do US publishers), O'Reilly, Double Dragon, and many other publishers don't put DRM on their books; some are deeply opposed to DRM and won't sell through any store that requires it.

Amazon now allows (didn't used to) individual authors to skip DRM; it's probably just a matter of time before publishers are offered the same right to control access to their ebooks.
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