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Originally Posted by starrigger
Finally, someone mentioned Amazon owning the DRM on the books they sell. That is incorrect. (I also got clarification about that today.) The DRM is on the supplied files from the publisher, and it's there because Mobipocket requires it. What I am told is that Amazon draws most of their inventory from Mobipocket, which they own. So Amazon doesn't apply the DRM, and they might not directly require it, but it is required by the gatekeeper, Mobipocket. I can't swear this applies to all publishers, but that's what ereads is facing, and that's why ereads titles on Amazon have DRM.
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According to the stream, Cory Doctorow has just given a keynote invoking the evils of Digital Rights Management. Of course, Doctorow has beaten the drum on the evils of DRM for quite some time, but this time two special targets of his disdain were Amazon, for insisting that all Kindle books be DRM’d even if the publisher does not wish them to be, and the Amazon-owned Audible audiobook publisher for insisting its audiobooks carry DRM.
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"Random House audio wanted to sell mp3 of Little Brother, Amazon said only through Audible, which requires DRM - Doctorow" —@sljournal on Twitter
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So according to Cory Doctorow, it is Amazon that insists that eBooks and audio books be laden with DRM even if the publishers do not want such.
The full article can be found at
http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/10/c...ce/#more-16765.