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I don't really think Amazon is planning to purposely exclude any publishers from converting their books to Kindle's format. Since they already have print-based business relationships with them, they are more likely to point to their pull in the market, and convince them to join rather than fight.
Also, Amazon makes it easy for publishers with no prior busiess relationship to get their books into Amazon's hands anyway, through their desktop publishing system. This doesn't seem like a company that plans to exclude anybody.
On the other hand... making e-book purchasing and reading fairly ubiquitous and iTunes/iPod easy, which Amazon is clearly attempting with the Kindle, could result in a market confortable with buying e-books (and mainly leaving them on their Kindle, as opposed to copying or sharing). In such a market, DRM could potentially be removed, with no appreciable loss to the industry, as iTunes is now releasing non-DRM'd music.
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