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Originally Posted by Alisa
What's troubling me at the moment is that if Amazon succeeds, this may mean a lot more ebook titles available for all of us (yay!) but it becomes another success for restrictive DRM. More companies will probably try it. If they fail, it sets the ebook business back a fair ways. Many will interpret it as a lack of interest.
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So: The kindle is bad news for eBooks. No matter if it succeeds or fails - it is bad news. BUT: I guess that - in the long run - a failure will be the better way.
Oh: However small the market from the geeks will be - geeks are essentially the carriers of a market. They start a market, they test new devices, they develop the new software, etc
We have more power than you imagine
(less than I would like, but more than you seem to think
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