Cory Doctorow Reports On His DRM Negotiations

Cory Doctorow provided an update on his DRM negotiations on Boing Boing yesterday.  Excerpt below, and full text here.

“My August Publishers Weekly column reports in on my experiment to see which of the major ebook stores would carry my books without DRM, and with a text disclaimer at the beginning that released readers from the crazy, abusive license agreements that most of these stores demand as a condition of purchase. Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo were all happy to carry my books without DRM, and on terms that gave you the same rights you got when buying paper editions. Sony and Apple refused to carry my books without DRM — even though my publisher and I both asked them to.

The upshot is that you can now buy electronic editions of my books in the Kindle, Nook and Kobo stores in DRM-free, EULA-free editions!”

If successful, Doctorow might have a significant impact on rights management across to the digital publishing world.