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The Waterstone's deal may or not be the same--I've heard the Kindles they sell have custom firmware so they may get a longer revenue share deal. They are certainly big enough to be "more equal". For the US indies the deal is pretty straightforward: get a two year piece of the kindle pie, even from upgraders, an open-ended piece of the Kobo pie (but only new Kobo customers, so far), or get nothing from other epub customers. They don't really have much to offer so Amazon probably doesn't care much if they accept the offer or not. Amazon just wants it on public record that they offered bookstores and small businesses a piece of the ebook action and were summarily dismissed by most. That is priceless. Cheap antitrust insurance. Last edited by fjtorres; 11-07-2013 at 07:19 AM. |
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Conquer from within - brilliant marketing strategy
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If people are going to buy ebooks anyway, surely it makes more sense for a bookshop to make some revenue from that process, than none?
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11-07-2013, 09:48 AM | #20 | |
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If I could sell Kindles and AZW books with my shop preinstalled on the Kindle without paying any kind of franchising, license or whatever fee i.e. acting as seller and not Amazon-reseller, I'd probably change my mind. But this would be closer to competition than Amazon probably likes. I would not have any special preference for epub if AZW were open. I like mobi and occasionally read mobi books on my Symbian phone when my T3 isn't with me. Of course I'd appreciate most if epub (with ADE DRM) and AZW could coexist on a Kindle. Last edited by hansl; 11-07-2013 at 10:00 AM. |
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11-07-2013, 11:37 AM | #21 | |
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Took me two minutes to get Nook on my Kindle. On the eInk Kindles they would if ADEPT weren't a for profit venture for Adobe requiring its own licensing fees. But as long as Adobe competes against Amazon they aren't getting a free ride on Kindles. |
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Also, its not a free ride since the user pays for the eInk Kindle. If Amazon would offer epub with Adobe DRM I could read it on my Sony. And Amazon for sure wouldn't worry about this user paid ride on a Sony. And Adobe has no bookstore except for books about Adobe software, with an incarnation as the Adobe Bookstore at Amazon! So where is the competition except that between DRMs which isn't a competition really as long as Amazon's is bound to AZW on Kindles? Last edited by hansl; 11-08-2013 at 04:27 AM. |
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I don't understand your reasoning. Why is it relevant in this situation that the user pays for the e-ink Kindle? Anyway, isn't it widely speculated that Amazon sells their e-ink readers for near-cost and makes their profits on the bookstore?
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I know that ADEPT is the only DRM supported on my Sony but many bookstores and ebook reader devices support it. It is not locked away for Adobe use only. Last edited by hansl; 11-08-2013 at 06:21 AM. |
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Yes, sloppy nomenclature, I must admit, probably because of a lingering bow to past historical reputation - although Waterstones did seem to manage to cling on to that reputation through various trials, tribulations and incarnations ! Anyway, sadly no more, being, as they are, now totally dependent on Russian largesse and the balance sheet ..... Last edited by carpetmojo; 11-08-2013 at 06:22 AM. |
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11-08-2013, 06:21 AM | #28 |
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Harry, sorrry about the mess above. I hope you can get past my duff construction - tried to edit things, and didn't help.........
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That Adobe tax makes sense for ebook sellers who don't have the technology and resources to support their own DRM encryption, authentication, and management systems so for *them* Adobe earns its piece of the action. But Amazon owns its technology and its own servers and its own DRM; everything Adobe does, they already do. And in some respects, they do it better. (Direct wireless shopping and delivery, device registration and management, standalone PC-less operation.) So Amazon paying for Adobe DRM is paying Adobe to do things they can do themselves in-house and cheaper. That is the very definition of free ride: getting paid to provide unnecessary services. And the proof lies in the results: Amazon does just fine without Adobe. The only reason why Amazon would want to waste hundreds of millions of dollars a year paying Adobe would be to try to absolutely positively kill all competing ebookstores. That would be true monopolistic behavior and would draw the attention of the antitrust regulators faster than a speeding bullet. No way does Amazon want that. And neither do we. As is, Amazon now runs a legally clean competitive operation. It is cheaper to run than their generic competitors and they choose to pass on the savings to consumers as lower prices. Consumers get a clear choice: buy into the Amazon ecosystem or buy interoperability. Either choice has its pros and cons but that is life. *Everything* in life is a trade-off. TINSTAAFL!! Last edited by fjtorres; 11-08-2013 at 07:02 AM. |
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