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Originally Posted by Jane12
I didn't realize you could tell if a book is DRM free on Amazon. What do you look for?
(I thought it might be "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited," but I spot-checked a bunch of Tor and Baen books, and they don't say that. For example, I have Ender's Game from B&N and it downloads DRM free. It also says "DRM-free" on Kobo. However Ender's Game doesn't say "unlimited" or anything else that suggests DRM free on Amazon. Then again, I've never bought ebooks from Amazon, so maybe Tor and Baen books aren't DRM free if you buy from Amazon?)
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On KDP published books "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" will let you know a book is DRM free. For books from publishing houses that submit another way some like Tor and Baen mention it in the books description ("At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)") and for others like Carina Press and O'Reilly the books are DRM-free, but there is no way of knowing that other than knowing the publisher is DRM-free. Then you have some publishers that are DRM-free at their own sites like Samhain (DRM-free at their site and B&N) but not elsewhere which makes it worse. Unfortunately Amazon doesn't have something as simple and direct as mentioning the DRM status in the product details.
EDIT: I see a lot of Tor books no longer have the "At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)" tag line in the description. Perhaps whoever does their book submissions isn't adding that text anymore?