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Originally Posted by TimW
I'm a bit confused at Pottermore's logic in selling a watermarked ebook directly from their site but requesting it be DRMed if it's sold through one of the bookstores. Am I misunderstanding something or is this another facet of the grand clusterfluff?  |
I'm guessing that Amazon couldn't support watermarking the ebooks and that having Pottermore send the watermarked version would require Amazon to treat each copy as a separate inventory item, which would be difficult, if not impossible to do.
So when faced with the choice of DRM-free with no watermark, or DRM, they went with the DRM version. Maybe they'll eventually offer a DRM-free, watermarked file directly from the site.