Amazon has seemingly made no effort to address this, considering that for years removing DRM from a Kindle file has been simple as opening it in a program like Epubor or Calibre and pressing ‘Convert’.
It was cracked way back in 2009 by a reverse engineer who goes by the handle I 💗Cabbages. To put it bluntly, Kindle DRM is useless. Kindle DRM provides no protection against piracy
One might argue that DMCA protection is more effective. When you publish with Amazon KDP, Amazon DRM is enabled by default.Įnabling DRM will make little difference as to whether users share your ebooks.
Users can also lend their DRM protected ebooks to others for a short period of time before they expire and are no longer accessible.
opening an ebook unless they are authorized to do so (i.e. E-books can only be opened using Amazon’s hardware (Kindle device) or software app. What is Kindle DRM?Īmazon’s DRM for Kindle applies Digital Rights Management controls to ebooks to prevent unauthorized sharing and copying. The caveat however is that you have to enable Amazon’s Digital Rights Management before you can sell them. Note: while this article only covers Amazon DRM for Kindle, the same is true if you want to sell your Audiobooks on Audible. Once uploaded, authors’ only option is Amazon’s first-party Kindle DRM. However, non-AZW3 formats will be converted to AZW3 on upload and therefore cannot have DRM pre-applied. Amazon Kindle DRMĪmazon allows authors to upload ebooks to its platform in its own AZW format, MOBI, and EPUB. The real kicker in this situation, however, is the fact that Amazon is effectively punishing authors for its own ineffective DRM protection and policies. Piracy is something that ebook authors have always had to contend with, but now the fight appears to have opened a new front. This is despite spending a significant portion of their revenue paying companies to file DMCA takedowns on their behalf. This, it seems, isn’t a one-off occurrence for some authors, but a repeated stressor that frequently rears its head. Despite in some cases providing screenshots, metadata logs, and copyright certificates, during the warning period, the books were still removed. Some with a five-day warning, and some with no warning at all. Several authors, including Raven Kennedy, Carissa Broadbent, Nancy O’Toole, and Ruby Dixon, have run afoul of this rule due to piracy and had their books removed from the platform. Amazon reserves the right to remove an ebook if it appears to be available for sale or for free on another platform. KDP Select is a program through which authors can earn higher royalties (up to 70%) on their ebook sales, should they agree to publish them exclusively through Amazon and make their work available to Amazon Prime at no extra cost via the Kindle Unlimited program.
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