Free for the first year, $99 fee waived. Nice. Reading through the agreement though, there are a few interesting things. 1. You have to provide Amazon with all

Free for the first year, $99 fee waived. Nice. Reading through the agreement though, there are a few interesting things. 1. You have to provide Amazon with all software that is yours on the Market 2. You have to add Amazon specific DRM to the apps you add to Amazon and cannot use any other DRM 3. There are privacy requirements on embedded advertising 4. The parentheses in the agreement are not well balanced! There are a lot of missing closing )s. So you cannot pick and choose which of your software goes on Amazon and which on the Market. The DRM means you would at the very least need 2 versions of your software if you use Google's licence server "DRM" - one with Google's technology and another version with Amazon's. I'd say that if you go the DRM route, you'd want to use Amazon or the Market, but not both. If Amazon turns out to be more popular with paying customer this could really have an impact. Especially the "all your Apps belong to us" requirement - I think having a free-with-adverts version of an App on the Market and a paid version on Amazon is forbidden under this agreement. Policing rogue advertising is good, though I doubt Amazon will really kick anyone off for using AdMob or any of the big players. Also, #4 shows that the agreement was not written by a Lisp programmer. It makes reading parts of the agreement tricky.