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How do you differentiate between DRM-free and DRM-protected books on Amazon? Up until I have read this comment, I didn't even know that Amazon support DRM-free
by r3bl 9y ago
How do you differentiate between DRM-free and DRM-protected books on Amazon?
Up until I have read this comment, I didn't even know that Amazon support DRM-free books.
- criddell 9y agoTor doesn't put DRM on any of it's titles. For an example, look up Cory Doctorow's book Walkaway. At the bottom of the book description it says: > At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Unfortunately, they don't always tell you. If you look up Little Brother (another of Doctorow's books), it doesn't say anything about DRM even though the book doesn't have DRM.
- r3bl 9y agoAh, well, at least the sentence is consistent and does not change. Something like: site:amazon.com "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied." Gives me ~37.4k results (out of ~5m Kindle books, assuming that Google indexed every single one of them).
- roryisok 9y agoAll of Cory Doctorow's books are available DRM free and free-as-in-beer free from his website, craphound.com He's always made a point of that
- chrisanthropic 9y agoIt's completely up to the publisher (or author if self-published) to enable DRM or not via a checkbox in the UI when publishing on Amazon. We've been releasing ours with the same CC license as Cory Doctorow, but honestly very few people really seem to care, unfortunately.