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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Last we were able to track down, Amazon allows self-publishing individuals to go DRM-free, but publishing houses are still required to apply DRM. The reason Baen's ebooks aren't available through Amazon is that Amazon won't let them sell without DRM.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that's true anymore. Baen and O'Reilly
both have books available on Amazon's Kindle store, e.g.,
The Spirit Ring.
The problem
seems to have been that Amazon's normal workflow puts DRM on e-books by default for the larger publishers, so a second workflow had to be created for non-DRM'ed books.
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Andrew Savikas [21 April 2009 11:12 AM]
@dmoynihan -- You're right about DTP not requiring DRM, but we (like most publishers) don't use DTP to sell titles via Amazon. That's handled through other mechanisms. And yes, Amazon told us that we could not sell on Kindle without DRM, and we repeatedly (vociferously) protested.
The new Amazon ingestion workflow allowing us to sell unencrypted mobi files is the first time they've done so for a non-DTP submission (i.e, the source of the vast majority of Kindle titles).
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