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Originally Posted by queentess
I don't know any way to tell if the book is DRM'ed from Amazon. I suspect /most/ are, but Amazon doesn't require DRM from certain publishers on certain days of the month if the sun shines just right. (IE - it's a mystery to me, but I know Amazon doesn't require DRM on everything.)
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As of April 2009, Amazon doesn't require any book to have DRM. The choice is left to the publisher.
DRM has always been disabled by default for authors publishing through Amazon. After some authors reported difficulty in enabling DRM, Amazon made it easier last year.
(Prior to April 2009, there were two tracks: Amazon Published and Other Published. Since the big publishers (who used "Other Published") insisted on DRM, the system that processed "Other Published" was set to add DRM, so anyone who used that track instead of "Amazon Published" had to use DRM, until Amazon fixed the system.)
Jeff Bezos says he is "DRM agnostic" and that he does not think getting rid of it would hurt sales as publishers and authors fear.