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taming · 11-22-2010, 11:02 AM

I'm afraid you are being naive. The fact that Penguin does not come clean with the fact that books bought from their site include DRM has been discussed on MR before. In general, publishers control which books have DRM added--though individual authors can negotiate that with the publisher. I have heard that Sony adds DRM to all books downloaded from their site. Kobo has DRM free books, but the fact that they are DRM free appears to be only visible on the version of the store that one sees using a mobile app.

11-22-2010, 11:02 AM	#6
taming Trying for calm & polite Posts: 4,012 Karma: 9455193 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mostly in Canada Device: kobo original, WiFI, Touch, Glo, and Aura	I'm afraid you are being naive. The fact that Penguin does not come clean with the fact that books bought from their site include DRM has been discussed on MR before. In general, publishers control which books have DRM added--though individual authors can negotiate that with the publisher. I have heard that Sony adds DRM to all books downloaded from their site. Kobo has DRM free books, but the fact that they are DRM free appears to be only visible on the version of the store that one sees using a mobile app. Last edited by taming; 11-22-2010 at 11:05 AM.