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Originally Posted by Alisa
Absolutely. I've seen that same argument before from other folks calling Amazon hypocritical for selling DRM-free music and DRMed books. Either they don't get how the industry works or they're just trying to prop up their point at the expense of reason. It's not like they get to dictate to the people who own the content how it should be sold. Individual publishers could actually choose to release their works DRM-free. I'm betting there aren't nearly as many publishers as there are record companies that are willing to do that just yet.
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There was a posting and comment thread about this on Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/11...loads-mak.html
Amazon as a large bookseller can to some extent dictate the conditions.