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Originally Posted by stumped
I have read, but do not have an evidentery link to hand, that amazon apply drm to books even when the author or publisher has asked for said books to be sold drm free. Cory Doctorow is a possible example.
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It's certainly possible Amazon has done that mistakenly at some point, but without a specific case it's hard to say. The author/publisher chooses whether to add DRM as part of the process of uploading the book to Amazon. The only times I've heard of DRM being applied when unwanted were when the author mistakenly checked the box to DRM the book. I have 12,144 books in my Amazon library. The majority have no DRM.
I know Doctorow doesn't use DRM on his titles and had some trouble getting Audible, which is owned by Amazon, to sell them that way at one time, but later they agreed to do so (except Apple, who Audible provided Audiobooks to exclusively at the time required DRM). I think it's still not easy to get Audible to sell titles DRM free, but I'm not sure as I haven't looked into it.