Thread: Great News! Amazon scores more ebook exclusives
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Old 03-29-2011, 09:19 AM   #113
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Amazon is seriously fragmenting the market. We need a single eBook standard with no DRM but if we have to have DRM, then it should all be the same DRM. ePub is that format and adept is that DRM.

It wasn't that Sony was failing. It was that Sony realized that using LRX wasn't a good idea. Amazon just doesn't realize hat ePub is better then Mobipocket.
Sony had a pretty poor quality book store offering, so there was a big advantage to giving access to books from other stores.
Amazon has the best bookstore, so the issue is nowhere near as important.
Switching DRM is not free. Again, why would Amazon voluntarily give away 20-25c per sale to another company?
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