Way back when the Kindle was very expensive, during the pre-Agency pricing for books days, Amazon made their money selling the devices. They used to lose money with each ebook sale so yeah, I can understand why they wouldn't have wanted to pay additional fees to Adobe to use their DRM scheme.
However, all that has now changed. Amazon is no longer locked into a system where they are losing money on their ebook sales, so perhaps their stance has changed with respect to paying fees to Adobe.
I'm curious to see whether this will actually happen and how Amazon will implement it.
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