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Old 09-26-2010, 11:59 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
This is not like an exclusive deal made at Target for a CD with an extra track or two. They can still be bought and played on any CD player.

But an eBook is not like a CD. If you make a deal with just one company and that ends up with only one format, you alienate everyone who cannot read it. And that also brings bad press and lots of people will ignore you and your future work.
No, but it's exactly like an exclusive for a video or computer game (and I'm pretty sure blue-ray), and there are hundreds of those every year. Exclusives are nothing unusual at all.
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