Amazon allows authors to forego DRM
By Paul Biba
Nieman Journalism Lab is reporting that Amazon implemented this option, without giving the public or press any notice of it, on or about January 15. At this time Amazon changed its Digital Text Platform to include the no-DRM option shown in the picture. Not too many other details are known as Amazon has made no comment on the change.
The article’s author quotes the following explanation from the DTP site: 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.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Actually, this is now allowing authors to use DRM easily. Before this, the only way to implement DRM in a Kindle book uploaded to the DTP was to create a Mobipocket file that had DRM built-in. All of the Word docs, PDFs, and other files authors have been uploading for 2 years are not DRMed.