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Originally Posted by jbcohen
But wouldn't be in there best interests to reach the largest possible number of customers possible? I would think that even with my Libra Pro they would still want to sell me ebooks. Being proprietary is limiting the customer base, I would think that Amazon, for example, would preferr to have people with Sony readers, Kobo readers and Libra Pros and what ever else there is out there buying from them? Grab for the entire market.
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It would cannibalise sales. People with Kindles would buy ebooks from Sony and vice versa. If that happened on a mass scale it would create competition, and competition always drives down prices. If you lock people to a specific device using a specific site to buy ebooks for it, you maximise your profits.
The ultimate desire is to become the dominant device, that way you control the market. If people were free to buy their content from wherever they want, which device you owned would become irrelevant and dominance would become impossible.