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KDP is far from "oppressive." Authors are totally free to sell directly from their own websites, through DRM-free platforms like Gumroad or Smashwords, and a wh
by jchewitt 11y ago
KDP is far from "oppressive." Authors are totally free to sell directly from their own websites, through DRM-free platforms like Gumroad or Smashwords, and a whole bunch of other options.
What authors get from KDP is a larger cut of revenue, opportunities to list on Kindle Unlimited, and an easier time overall selling ebooks on Amazon. Plenty of authors are 'internalizing their oppression' all the way to the bank. Because DRM ebooks from Amazon tend to be delivered in an incrementally more convenient way, and it's incrementally easier for the average user to sync their library across devices when they buy that way.
This sort of ideological rhetoric around DRM probably alienates more people than it converts.
- CWuestefeld 11y agoBecause DRM ebooks from Amazon tend to be delivered in an incrementally more convenient way I'm not sure how DRM factors into this. I buy ebooks through Google all the time, and only a minority of them are DRM-protected. Yes as far as I can see, the distribution mechanism is identical whether DRM is in place or not. My understanding is that "put DRM on this book" is nothing more than a checkbox that the author chooses for the book.