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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Oh, most of the publishers, certainly. The Big Six insist on it. But Amazon won't (or wouldn't) allow other publishers to skip it--they were required to allow DRM as part of their contract for selling ebooks through Amazon.
There's hope that this will change; initially, Amazon's claim, or implication, was that since the Big Six insisted, all their software was designed to put DRM on the ebooks, and they weren't going to change that arrangement just for a few outliers. But with the rise of self-publishing allowing sales without DRM, that's no longer the case. If they're still not allowing publishers to opt-out, it's because they're struggling to keep customers locked to their store, not because it costs too much to bother.
There are a growing number of small publishers who don't like DRM and don't think it does them any favors; in the past, Amazon told them that to sell ebooks through Amazon, they had to use the Kindle's DRM. I haven't heard if that's changed in the last few months.
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Thanks, elf.
That makes the most sense. I guess we need to see if things changed across the board or not. I'll see what I can find out.