The cited problem from publishers has always been that they do not have their past catalog in digital form from which to create ebooks. If Amazon is getting them to create these "new" "old" ebooks then it is in their own best interest to allow other distributors to also sell these ebooks.
Perhaps, like Apple, they will start with DRM versions and move to non-DRM versions as time passes. Then again, if they are selling in DRM, why bother stripping it out.
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