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Old 05-25-2011, 12:29 PM   #124
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
Amazon have enough money to pay for an adept licance.
Amazon is a low margin, high volume business. They have a profit margin of less than 5% (but good profit because they do a *lot* of business). Imposing a 22 cent surcharge on each drm'd book is not something they would accept.
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Else, they can use their weight on the e-book market to impose the no drm to the publishers.

They can do it, the question is, do they want to ?
Turns out the publishers have a lot of power, too; they were able to force the agency model on Amazon.
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That what they sould do if they had some sences

That is not clear at all. And claiming that Amazon lacks sense ignores a lot of facts.
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