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ATDrake · 04-01-2012, 01:54 AM

It's back now, and seems to have been since sometime around yesterday (definitely did not have the indicator when I posted the feature title for this thread).

Several weeks ago Amazon removed the "Simultaneous Device Usage" part of the Product Info, which when set to "Unlimited" was the secret code for DRM-free (and told you how many devices the publisher would let you put it on if it was less than 6, which some of the business and religious presses did).

Without it, you could no longer tell if a Kindle title was DRM or not, short of actually "purchasing" it and downloading and trying to strip (or at least trying to open it in a non-Kindle Mobipocket-capable reader app, of which I know of only 4) since non-Topaz samples are always DRM-free.

Thanks to everyone who wrote and complained to Amazon CS; hopefully that helped contribute to their changing it back. Now if only we could get B&N and the iBookstore to start noting the DRM-free stuff as well...

04-01-2012, 01:54 AM	#9
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	It's back now, and seems to have been since sometime around yesterday (definitely did not have the indicator when I posted the feature title for this thread). Several weeks ago Amazon removed the "Simultaneous Device Usage" part of the Product Info, which when set to "Unlimited" was the secret code for DRM-free (and told you how many devices the publisher would let you put it on if it was less than 6, which some of the business and religious presses did). Without it, you could no longer tell if a Kindle title was DRM or not, short of actually "purchasing" it and downloading and trying to strip (or at least trying to open it in a non-Kindle Mobipocket-capable reader app, of which I know of only 4) since non-Topaz samples are always DRM-free. Thanks to everyone who wrote and complained to Amazon CS; hopefully that helped contribute to their changing it back. Now if only we could get B&N and the iBookstore to start noting the DRM-free stuff as well...