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Story summary
- Amazon will allow digital rights management (DRM)-free e-books in EPUB and PDF via Kindle Direct Publishing starting January 20, 2026.
- Authors can opt to enable DRM for new titles but must manually change older titles.
- Amazon has increased DRM measures to restrict backups.
- These updates follow earlier changes that limited USB download options.
- Authors will see changes reflected on Amazon.com within 72 hours after updating DRM status.
