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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
ever encounter the situation where a bookstore did not carry any books from a particular publisher because the publisher cut a deal with a different store?
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Not the same thing at all. Notwithstanding the fact that first sale doctrine gives all bookstores the right to sell books from all publishers, you can still get the book in the format of your choice (incidentally the only one available for pbooks). The problem here is not that Amazon sells the book exclusively, the issue is that they only do so for their own walled-garden devices.
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I too wish there was a genuinely open format w/o DRM
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DRM
is the problem. If it weren't for encryption converting files would be a non-issue.