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Originally Posted by TimW
Amazon can deliver books either with or without DRM. The publisher decides. According to Nate:
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It's an either or though. Full blown lock in DRM or no DRM at all.
Read between the lines and you'll get, Pottermore wanted some DRM (watermarking) but not full blown can't move across devices DRM that we're all so against. Amazon likely refused to implement watermarking as a form of DRM on their service and said you can have no DRM at all or our DRM.
So whilst it may have been Pottermore's choice to use Amazon's DRM, it wasn't really a choice at all as they clearly want some form of protection of their books otherwise they wouldn't have watermarking.
That's not to say Amazon is at fault here either, after all why should they implement another form of DRM just for one set of books? Saying that, even if other authors asked for watermarking, Amazon would have little incentive to offer it.