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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
OK, lets look at it from the point of view of an author and/or publisher that has been convinced that they need DRM or they will suffer huge loss of sales. They will see a marketplace where all the major ebook retailers, that account for over 60% of sales, have their own proprietary DRM and are quite willing (I would suggest, eager) to apply their DRM to any book files they will sell. Is it your position that the retailers are not using their proprietary DRM to lock-in customers to their "ecosystem" and devices?
As to Amazon in particular; It has been suggested that Amazon is in a special position because they own their own DRM and need not pay Adobe or anyone else a per book fee. Do you think they will easily give up any advantage they gain from this situation? While other retailers might give up applying DRM and no longer have to pay such fees for the use of the DRM, Amazon would not have the same incentive.
Luck;
Ken
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Everything that I have ever seen says that one doesn't have to be a big publisher to opt out of the DRM. I've seen posts here from little folks saying they were putting out a Kindle book and wanted to know if they should apply the DRM.
If Amazon wanted to require DRM, they could easily do that for all those people. Only give exemptions for the big publishers, but they don't.
Does Amazon charge a fee for the DRM? How much money does DRM bring them? Maybe they'd love to get rid of the DRM maintenance and development, but they have to provide it to get the big publishers in.
Maybe Amazon knows that most Kindle customers will never use Calibre conversion in order to go buy epubs from Barnes & Noble.