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Originally Posted by HarryT
It has nothing to do with the booksellers; it's the publishers and authors. All ebook sites (to the best of my knowledge) allow DRM-free downloads; it's the submitter's choice whether or not to use DRM.
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The smaller stores--booksonboard, diesel--used to inflict DRM on everything, and not long ago, but they've changed; Scalzi's
Redshirts was pretty much the death knell of store-mandatory DRM. Since Tor announced they were publishing it without DRM, and customers had the author's permission to remove the DRM, the DMCA laws against anti-DRM software didn't apply, because the software wasn't being used to remove a copyright holder's restrictions.
The Sony store may still inflict
DRM on all ebooks; Redshirts says it's sold w/o DRM but there's no way to tell from the website if that's true. (If it's not, that's an easy excuse to share drm-cracking software.) And the iBookstore has its own walled-garden issues.