https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/to...bDate=20251212
They are basically turning over the responsibility to the publishers/authors. So instead of slapping their DRM on every book, it will be up to the publishers/authors to make that decision. If they want to go back through the books that are drm'd they will have to go in and manually switch them over.
This should be very interesting to see if it actually happens.
It also means that Amazon probably lost a lot of book buying customers due to their bad decision to make books no longer downloadable.
I doubt the big publishers will change anything, but the independent authors just might.
I know I had a discussion with an Amazon only author whom I asked if he sold his books on Kobo, because I wanted his latest book. He told me no he didn't. I informed him that that was too bad because I no longer will buy books on Amazon due to them no longer allowing downloads.
I just bet thousands of people did just what I did with their favorite authors, and I bet Amazon got a million earfuls about it!
Go us!!!!
