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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Agreed, the market will do whatever it wants to without our opinion but I do not believe any of the data is conclusive proof that will drive the eBook market at least this year. If Amazon believed you they would not have come up with another DRM system to control the sales of their product just a couple of months ago. I guess they are too stupid to realize it is futile.
Dale
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I do not think the problem is with Amazon but with the culture of publishing which (in my opinion of course) just does not care about e-books considering them irrelevant at best and a threat at worst.
As I mentioned in another post, this kind of discussion about the inevitability (or dustbin) of drm for e-books is premature for now, since e-books are just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of ... the book publishing business. When they will achieve market penetration of say 10-20% we can talk and see who was right.
For the moment the only digital e-product that has non-negligible market penetration is music and there the evidence is clear against drm.