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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I don't know about the EULA, but from everything I've heard it's Amazon that's insisting on DRM, not the publishers. We've had the same story from multiple independent sources, and never heard anything to the contrary that wasn't freely acknowledged to be speculation.
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I honestly don't know anything more, either. It just sounds odd that they'd insist on it for BH publishers - or Baen, if that's still the case - but be cool not using it for anyone else, doesn't it?
I've missed any other reports of publishers who wanted to sell without DRM but couldn't - most pro-DRM prop I've seen comes from publisher reps and others who say they're speaking for the industry or authors.
I think I was mostly swayed by what Konrath and what that other author blogged about on the topic... well, that and the things I listed.
I'm not one to defend whatever Amazon does - I love Sony's reader, and I can't stand the knee-jerk fanboys. I just tend to see Amazon as being more customer-centric than publishers are.