[jamesdmanley]

not necessarily, there are many other publishers out there other than sony (granted they still have to pay royalties). on the printer side there is a rapidly growing industry based solely around refilling and refurbishing used printer cartridges yet brother, canon, hp, etc. havent gone out of business yet or discontinued selling printers

edit: the original quote was referencing amazon (kindle) which is, for most lazy/non-technical people a closed format similar to a gaming console, so the comparison is still valid