I suspect Amazon doesn't really have a strategy on DRM. Many publishers supply Kindle books through their relationship with Amazon's Mobipocket subsidiary. Yet Mobipocket has never asked me if I'd allow DRM-free books for Kindle. Just asking would be easy--and cost-free. Right now, Amazon is basking in the success of their Kindle--and more power to them. Consider how many companies have flopped with eReaders and you have to respect Amazon for doing a lot of things right--including being very open to small publishers. But they don't seem to have DRM-free on their Kindle radar--at least not yet.
Rob Preece
Publisher,
www.BooksForABuck.com