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		Turing_Machine on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil? P.S. "rely on DRM on the walled garden of the Kindle store to lock consumers onto their platform," This is also nonsense. If your Kindle books are DRMed it's because your publisher insists on it. It's a checkbox in the publishing portal. Amazon doesn't actually care if you add DRM or not.

rubinelli on May 26, 2014 [–]

How do you tell if a Kindle book has DRM or not? I searched all over the product pages and couldn't find it anywhere.

extesy on May 26, 2014 | [–]

Here's an example of a book with DRM (look at the last line of book description): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DA6YEKS

Turing_Machine on May 27, 2014 | | [–]

Actually that's an example of a book without DRM. :-)

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