I have no idea how the officers of Amazon feel about DRM but I once was in a customer advisory forum for Audible where we had discussions with a lot of the companies officers about their policies so they could get feedback from us. I participated in this for about 3 years. This was before they were purchased by Amazon so I'm not sure how much it tells me about Amazon.
Anyway their take on DRM was close to hatred and that was almost universal. They had DRM because it was the only way they could get publishers to let them sell their books. But they saw it as a major cost both in terms of the technology and customer support.
We had enough long discussions about this that I'm pretty sure those were their honest feelings and, as I said, I have no reason to think Amazon's officers also feel that way but who knows! I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they have DRM not because they want it but because they feel that they have to.
Everyone keeps talking about when Amazon forces everything to be KFX but there have been a number of updates, including some fairly major ones, since KFX became available and we can still use Calibre and it's little brother Alf to protect our purchases.
I wonder if this means Amazon really doesn't care?
I wish I knew this was the case. So far we're in good shape and maybe it'll stay that way and maybe sometime down the road Amazon will lead the charge against DRM. They've done stranger things.
Of course tomorrow they might lock everything down just to make me feel silly for saying this.
Barry