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Originally Posted by stumped
my prediction is that amazon will have flagged it to not allow an AZW4 option
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Perhaps I was unclear. I already tried it with that book and it
does deliver an AZW4 file with no DRM.
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Originally Posted by stumped
exploring some more- on the amazon page, for free sample of that book there is a transfer via computer option. That takes me to a page what asks which of my various devices I plan to transfer it to, so clearly they are going to apply device specific DRM to what they send me, but my non-amazon android tablets are greyed out. I can only have it prepared for an old HDX which amazon have not realized I've sold already
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That is normal. Downloading from Amazon is only allowed when destined for an e-ink Kindle or a Fire tablet. The resulting file will only have DRM if that option was chosen by the publisher.
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Restrictions come from the publishers, not Amazon. That book was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 16, 2018).
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According to Hitch who prepares Kindle books for a living, it is actually Amazon setting device/app restrictions based on the format uploaded to them by the publisher. So the publisher only controls this indirectly.
In this case the book is a print replica produced using a version of Amazon's Kindle Create software that was current when the book was published. I suspect that the device restriction derives from that.