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Blaming Amazon is totally pointing the finger at the culprit: Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from
by ernesth 11y ago
Blaming Amazon is totally pointing the finger at the culprit:
Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from text-to-speech, and various other possibilities of the kindle, including future compatility!
http://lexbrage.tumblr.com/post/13212628647/amazon-bragelonne-drm http://lexbrage.tumblr.com/post/13212628647/amazon-bragelonn... explains (in french) why Bragelonne (french publisher against DRMs) surrendered to having DRM on amazon.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from text-to-speech, and various other possibilities of the kindle, including future compatility!" Sorry, that is not correct. I've got several indie books on Amazon, none with DRM, and Amazon has never "threatened" me with anything. It's a checkbox in the publishing portal. All of them have text to speech enabled. Here's a link to an O'Reilly book (not one of mine). Check for yourself that "simultaneous device usage" is "unlimited" (i.e., no DRM) and that "text-to-speech" is "enabled". http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick-ebook/dp/B007Q4T040 http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick-ebook...