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I doubt it's due to the Creative Commons nature. Amazon allow publishers to sell non-DRMed and creative commons books on the Kindle Store, and have done for yea
by rmc 14y ago
I doubt it's due to the Creative Commons nature. Amazon allow publishers to sell non-DRMed and creative commons books on the Kindle Store, and have done for years.
- jack-r-abbit 14y ago> Amazon... sell... Kindle Store UnglueIt could cut Amazon out of that entirely. Rights holders would get the money directly and Amazon would get jack. May be it isn't about that but they would never admit that anyway so who knows.
- mindblink 14y ago@rmc Interesting, I have been doing research on Kindle publication, and most information online suggests that they sell only kindle file format, which is DRMed. Is there a way for publishers to sell and distribute PDFs and ePubs via Amazon?
- rmc 14y agoNo, you have to sell .mobi files. However .mobi files don't have to be DRMed. You can have non-DRMed .mobi files. When you sign up to the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), and are setting up a book to be published, there's a checkbox "Enable DRM". just don't check that. Lots of self published authors use creative commons work as a cover art, so it even can be creative commons licenced. Many books are sold on the Kindle Shop without DRM. Some large publishers (e.g. science fiction publisher Tor) is selling books on the Kindle Shop without DRM.