{"id":4450,"date":"2010-01-23T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2010-01-23T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:30:17","slug":"amazon-is-up-to-something-allowing-drm-free-ebooks-for-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is up to something. Allowing DRM-free eBooks for Kindle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for a link to this <strong><a title=\"Amazon sees the error of DRM?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2010\/01\/amazon-quietly-lets-publishers-remove-drm-from-kindle-ebooks\/\" target=\"_self\">gem<\/a><\/strong> at the <strong><a title=\"Amazon getting out of the CONTROLLING business?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2010\/01\/amazon-quietly-lets-publishers-remove-drm-from-kindle-ebooks\/\" target=\"_self\">Nieman Journalism Lab<\/a><\/strong>. Apparently <strong>Amazon<\/strong> has given the go ahead for some authors to publish eBooks for Kindle without digital rights management (DRM). DRM controls how consumers use the eBooks they purchase: how they read them and on what.<\/p>\n<p>The changes in Amazon&#8217;s Digital Text Platform were noticed by Kindle publishers around <strong>Jan. 15th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting development. More preparation for the arrival of Apple&#8217;s Tablet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jorgen for a link to this gem at the Nieman Journalism Lab. Apparently Amazon has given the go ahead for some authors to publish eBooks for Kindle without digital rights management (DRM). DRM controls how consumers use the eBooks they purchase: how they read them and on what. The changes in Amazon&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4450\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}