Thread: Dissapointed in Amazon :/
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Old 04-01-2017, 02:37 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
DRM on sales is a publisher's choice. Many publishers choose to go DRM-Free. Others don't.
Ever tighter DRM is an ongoing demand of the big publishers.

On the other hand, since Kindle Unlimited is big business by now, Amazon *needs* tighter, "unbreakable" DRM on those titles to prevent the unscrupulous from checking out and DeDRM'ing titles by the hundred.

Add them up and...
That is why we can't have nice things.
People keep pointing to this sort of expected behavior as justification, yet that behavior turns out to be very rare. It didn't happen with streaming music and it doesn't seem to be an issue with ebooks. Contrary to some opinions, not everything that Amazon does is in the best interest of anything except Amazon's profit margins.
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