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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
And just a quick note re Amazon and DRM - it's not Amazon who decide whether to add DRM to an ebook - it's the publisher. For indie authors self-publishing via Amazon's Digital Text Platform website, the choice of whether or not to add DRM to each title is simply an option they select during the publication process. Amazon doesn't require DRM as a condition of publishing/selling an ebook in their Kindle store. I've even seen some people say (though I have no way of knowing how true this is) that Amazon only introduced DRM for Kindle ebooks because some of the major publishers refused to publish and sell ebooks with Amazon if they didn't provide DRM.
- Donna
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One small correction on this. For indie authors (and some small presses) Amazon lets the author (or publisher) choose DRM or not. But for larger publishers (even ones as relatively small as Baen Books), Amazon
forces DRM. We know this, in part, because Baen's been negotiating with Amazon for a long time (as in 1-year-plus) to get their books up DRM-free. Their corporate policy is no-DRM, so no Baen e-Books at Amazon until they can be DRM-free. Still waiting...
Xenophon