Week after week, the proportion DRM-free e-books rising to the top ranks of the Kindle charts, last Wednesday the nine best-selling e-books were free of hard DRM. The situation is unique in the world and could tempt Amazon Germany for action – because the great freedom is not in the sense of the online retailer
In many indie authors who dominate the German charts Kindle has always been, has been a change of heart in recent months. Attempted self publisher with a hard copy to protect their e-books from piracy for a long time, just have the successful authors now almost entirely renounced the copy protection
victims of Kindle DRM. Non-Kindle users
It is hard DRM but not proven as an effective means. Who wants the copy protection could already crack in seconds. “The victims [of hard DRM] are the readers who want to read the book, but do not have a Kindle, but another eReader. Without DRM you can convert the book and read in a different format. “
DRM no exclusivity
This speaks Poppy Anderson an important point. For as many other successful indie authors published the Essenerin their e-books exclusive to Amazon because the company for exclusive publication authors offers much better terms. The intention behind this is clear: means hundreds of thousands of exclusive titles gives Amazon its closed platform more attractive
Now last week were Kindle Books indeed to have the nine most popular exclusively on the Amazon platform, but could by a few clicks. and are perfectly legal to geschmökert readers from other manufacturers (so the conversion is). This may not be what Amazon, currently, particularly high commissions pours for an exclusivity that is not.
The online retailer itself provides its self-published e-books (Amazon Crossing, Amazon Publishing) has always been with the company’s own Kindle DRM. According to our information are also endeavor publishers such as Bastion Luebbe for many months in vain, their e-books at Amazon DRM-free for sale. We asked Amazon to back in July for an opinion on the answer we wait until today
Hardly DRM-free Kindle bestseller abroad
The situation in Germany is unique -. Ago Mainly because nowhere else so many indie authors are on the front seats. In the current Kindle charts of Amazon.com only one of the 10 best-selling Kindle books without hard copy. Alpha Billionare (number 9) is also the only self-publishers title at the top. At Amazon UK, there are no DRM-free tracks in the top 10 A major reason may be the lack of book prices, which is why many current published titles on Amazon abroad cost little more than indie literature.
Group Publishers play Amazon in the maps
It would be fitting of Amazon, “DRM-free” abolish the option in the near future altogether. The only reason why this did not happen so far is likely to be the ignorance of a large part of the digital readers that there is any DRM-free e-books from Amazon (and how to convert them). But even now, the competition could distinguish the fact that they sold the publishing titles only copy protected available at Amazon “free”. The Group publishers, the closed set still on Adobe DRM, Amazon play here fully in the cards
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The “Best-selling Kindle books without copy protection – when responding Amazon” was (Monday) written on the main 15 September 2014 at 15:01 clock by John. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is the editor and publisher of lesen.net.
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