Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books [Amazon]
Yesterday Amazon surprised us a bit with news of a Kindle app store, but there's a change they haven't mentioned: Publishers are now being allowed to skip adding DRM to Kindle books.
According to Nieman Lab, several publishers noticed the change around January 15th when a "new option gave [them] the choice to "not enable digital rights management" in Amazon's Digital Text Platform. There was no formal announcement, but this is the explanation from Amazon itself:
You may choose, on a per title basis, to have us apply DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology which is intended to inhibit unauthorized access to or copying of digital content files for titles. Once your title is published, this setting cannot be changed.
It's doubtful that major publishers would be quick to take advantage of this change, but we'll see. Kudos to Amazon for finally letting the people putting out the content decide how to present it to ebook shoppers. [Nieman Lab]
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Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books [Amazon]
Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books [Amazon]
Yesterday Amazon surprised us a bit with news of a Kindle app store, but there's a change they haven't mentioned: Publishers are now being allowed to skip adding DRM to Kindle books.
According to Nieman Lab, several publishers noticed the change around January 15th when a "new option gave [them] the choice to "not enable digital rights management" in Amazon's Digital Text Platform. There was no formal announcement, but this is the explanation from Amazon itself:
You may choose, on a per title basis, to have us apply DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology which is intended to inhibit unauthorized access to or copying of digital content files for titles. Once your title is published, this setting cannot be changed.
It's doubtful that major publishers would be quick to take advantage of this change, but we'll see. Kudos to Amazon for finally letting the people putting out the content decide how to present it to ebook shoppers. [Nieman Lab]
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Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books [Amazon]