Thread: *Publishers* setting device limit for Kindle
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Old 07-20-2009, 03:50 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
I'm pretty sure it's on there somewhere, or it was. Reading some of the threads on the Kindle forum it looks like it's 6 devices for major publishers and 5 for publishers using the DTP program. In which case that would have to be set by Amazon, which makes my previous post pretty much completely wrong.

It also looks like Amazon isn't actually asking publishers about the limit, it's just popping up on the books, very bad form.

Carl

Thanks for confirming my suspicions. It's very bad form for Amazon to claim that this is a publisher-set limit when it isn't.

At my company we neither use nor support DRM-laden books for our direct sales, but some distributors (Amazon among them) insist upon it. On a side note, Fictionwise doesn't insist upon DRM; if a FW book has DRM, it's because the publisher wants DRM.

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