Thread: What is it with Amazon’s Kindle love affair?
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Old 07-21-2014, 03:21 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by GERGE View Post
Amazon would lose a lot. Kindle is about keeping customers in Amazon services, not about DRM.

Amazon Music, Audible, Prime Videos... It is about a whole system. Kindle is just one of the doors, as the others are.
I think there's a different sensibility behind Amazon's behavior. They do not seem to me to be playing a zero-sum game as evidenced by the Amazon Marketplace, where they threw open access to their web presence to their competitors, allowing everyone to sell through Amazon.com, much to the benefit of all.

As to the DRM-free provision, it simply keeps the cost of the Kindle book the same as the cost (to Amazon) of the ePub version since they don't have to pay Adobe for using Adept DRM.
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