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Old 03-03-2009, 04:05 AM   #41
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Yesterday I sent an email to jeff@amazon.com complaining that despite his statements that Amazon doesn't insist on DRM, I couldn't find a way to submit without DRM.

This morning I got back a reply from Nick Boone-Lutz from the Kindle ebooks team.

It seems that you can publish on the Kindle without DRM, but not through the Mobipocket web site. You have to go through the Amazon Digital Text Platform

http://dtp.amazon.com/

And that will let you upload a non-DRMed Mobipocket file for the Kindle. (& other formats that get converted.)

I still think that the 35%/65% split is amazingly bad, but it seems non-DRM on Kindle is as easy as that. It won't get the book into other ebook stores, of course.

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Originally Posted by starrigger View Post
This is true. Ereads by preference distributes their books DRM-free and multiformat. (Just check the Ereads Store inside Fictionwise.) But when they distribute to the Kindle Store, they must submit it via mobipocket.com, which requires DRM. They are given no option.

The same is true of the Sony store, of course.

Which is why, for my ereads titles, I always recommend going to fictionwise, even for mobipocket editions.
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