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Amazon allows and enables DRM on their ecosystem. They provide no easy way to search only for books unencumbered by DRM. As the largest seller of ebooks, ther
by dublinben 11y ago
Amazon allows and enables DRM on their ecosystem. They provide no easy way to search only for books unencumbered by DRM. As the largest seller of ebooks, therefore the largest promoter of DRM-crippled ebooks, they are a perfectly legitimate target for criticism.
Keep in mind, you as a reader are not the customer of publishers. Distribution companies are. They are who can meaningfully exercise the pressure to affect the market, not you.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"They provide no easy way to search only for books unencumbered by DRM." Did you read what I wrote above? Go to Amazon. Select Kindle Store. Enter "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the search box. I can't imagine possibly wanting to search for books based on that (I search for books by author or subject, myself), but it's incorrect to say you can't easily do it if that's your thing. "Keep in mind, you as a reader are not the customer of publishers. " No, as a reader, I am absolutely the customer of indie authors and publishers, who are the same ones that don't, as a rule, use DRM.