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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
ePub's being adopted by every-friggin'-body else has effectively thrown a monkey-wrench into that machine. Enough other bookstores have comparable experiences to the Kindle store, and comparable (or--yes!--better) readers, to present viable alternatives to Amazon. And as most people prefer more choices, a market that allows you to buy the reader you want from multiple sellers, and buy books from multiple sellers, is more attractive than having only one books source for a reader that doesn't read other sellers' books.
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The biggest shame is that the likes of B&N and Apple felt the need to fragment the united front of the epub market by using their own drm as that harms the whole choice argument for no reason.