KDP is far from &quot;oppressive.&quot; Authors are totally free to sell directly from their own websites, through DRM-free platforms like Gumroad or Smashwords, and a whole bunch of other options.<p>What authors get from KDP is a larger cut of revenue, opportunities to list on Kindle Unlimited, and an easier time overall selling ebooks on Amazon. Plenty of authors are &#x27;internalizing their oppression&#x27; all the way to the bank. Because DRM ebooks from Amazon tend to be delivered in an incrementally more convenient way, and it&#x27;s incrementally easier for the average user to sync their library across devices when they buy that way.<p>This sort of ideological rhetoric around DRM probably alienates more people than it converts.