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Originally Posted by darryl
Interestingly enough, if Amazon is now taking DRM more seriously, what has prompted them to do so?
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It does not seem to me that they are taking DRM more seriously in general, only for the Kindle for PC/Mac apps and for KFX format.
Amazon wants to keep readers in the Kindle ecosystem. The PC/Mac apps are the main method by which non-Kindle owners remove DRM so there is some logic to keeping those somewhat locked down. Not blocking access by older versions of those apps hints that they are satisfied with the results of just putting a few roadblocks in the way of the DRM removal process.
For KFX DRM it may be a case of them fixing what they can at minimal cost. KFX is still under active development and so it is easy for them to make changes to that DRM. The other formats are frozen and may not be so easily modified.
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Originally Posted by darryl
I doubt the large publishers are able to exert significant influence in this regard, even assuming they wanted to.
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I see one exception to this. There are expensive textbooks published by Pearson Education that until now were only available in apps/devices with secure DRM. I wonder whether Amazon has promised to maintain that situation. If so then this DeDRM change will provoke a quick reaction.