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Originally Posted by joblack
Apple is getting away by selling crappy proprietary formats (iTunes, iPhone/iPad Apps, ...) for a long time. I can't see why Amazon shouldnt go for it too.
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This is what I think of when I think of the original post...
Apple has been selling and continues to be tops in the music market, even though the Itunes format is fairly proprietary (I know very little about the Apps side). Yet, people can easily go both ways in buying from other sources (i.e. Amazon's MP3 store, etc.) and still use them on the IPod, etc. or one can buy I-Pod music and convert it to MP3 fairly easily... Heck even before the ITunes store removed DRM it didn't take much effort to get music from the ITunes format to a non-DRM or MP3 format.
The EBook industry is no different than the music in that regard. It is kind of sad really because you'd think the EBook industry would try to learn a little from the music one, but unfortunately it didn't.