Thread: Kindle Unlimited 2.0 - early assessments
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Old 08-18-2015, 08:26 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by dickloraine View Post
I think it is pretty easy to see, why no one was interested in buying a drm license from amazon: Making money beyond the hardware sell. Of course there could be ways, if amazon would pay a affiliate fee, when a book is buyed through the device etc.
Which, oddly enough, they do offer.
So far it is only to independent bookstores (and Waterstones) but the offer is out there. It makes for nice antitrust insurance.

(The real hang-up, btw, isn't the store. It's that Kindle DRM is tied to WhisperNet so any DRM'ED books sold to kindles would have to be hosted on Amazon servers. For technical reasons. Look at the OVERDRIVE deal. What Amazon jealously guards is the "device" PIDs. Not the format or tbe encryption.)
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