Without DRM - and with the knowledge that their ebook investment can have long-term returns - readers might be willing to shift their buying to digital. Right now, someone who buys lots of Kindle ebooks is out of luck if, six months from now, some better non-Kindle ereader comes along. Many book publishers (with a few notable exceptions) have been hesitant to offer their works digitally without DRM, fearing a “ napsterization” of their industry - a free supply of all books available for download via file-sharing networks.īut eliminating DRM could also increase customers’ comfort level with buying ebooks.

I’ve asked Amazon for explanation of what exactly this new choice entails and haven’t heard back. It’s unclear whether similar changes are afoot for newspapers, magazines, or large publishers, who use a different system to publish to the Kindle. The Digital Text Platform is aimed at small publishers and authors it’s gained a foothold in short fiction, but it’s a platform with potential for both independent journalists and small news organizations. Once your title is published, this setting cannot be changed. 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. authors, but made no mention of DRM changes.Īmazon’s brief explanation of the new feature inside the DTP: 15, Amazon announced an expansion of its Digital Text Platform to non-U.S. A new option gave publishers the choice to “not enable digital rights management.” A science-fiction author named Joseph Rhea appears to have been the first to notice the change. 15, when a few Kindle publishers spotted changes in Amazon’s Digital Text Platform. The change appears to have gone in effect around Jan. Without a formal announcement, has started allowing authors made it easier for authors to publish their ebooks for the Kindle with or without digital rights management (DRM), the technology that limits how consumers can use the ebooks they’ve bought.

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