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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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. |
That's fantastic news. Now why didn't they just make a statement to that effect when all this blew up? Thanks for taking the initiative and emailing them pdurrant.