New kid on the block Inside the Dog Press is taking a “punk rock” attitude to publishing, with digital rights management-free e-book titles as well as artwork-inspired physical books.

Founder Crispin Somerville’s background in music merchandising and management has led him to make all Inside the Dog’s e-books...

Digital rights management is the elephant in the boardroom for all publishers; some in the industry argue that a strict DRM policy—which limits what a reader can do with a digital book once they’ve bought it—is playing into the hands of Amazon (whose users are locked into its Kindle platform) and sending out the wrong...

Three US independent bookshops have launched a lawsuit against the big six publishers and Amazon in America claiming that by signing a contract to sell e-books with DRM through Amazon, they are combining to restrict the sale of e-books through indie stores.

Fiction Addiction in South Carolina, Posman Books in New York [pictured] and...

De Arbeiderspers/A W Bruna, the largest publisher in the Netherlands, has removed DRM from its e-books for the first time.

All of the publisher's e-books, aside from those sold via the iBooks store, will be sold with a watermark attached rather than any DRM system.

Without Adobe DRM attached, customers will be able to...