From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.
That’s like saying someone wants to publish an app on the iOS app store but the 30% cut and forced DRM prevents them. It’s just a choice.
Given that Amazon does digital distribution of some items you could probably list it on the site and just have them give “digital access” to the ebook files. I’ve never gone through the process but i’d be quite surprised if this wasn’t possible, though it may not show up in the books section of amazon this way.
Choosing not to sell through Amazon because of the 30% cut is a completely different thing than Amazon requiring that the product be changed to add DRM.