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Originally Posted by Sao
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.
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At the moment they make X per book. If they had to pay money to Adobe, they would make less than X per book. Doesn't sound like a good idea to me
If they implemented ePub, they would implement their own DRM scheme.
Just like B&N, Apple and Kobo did.
For all the talk of ePub standards, what matters just as much is what the DRM scheme is, and that is very fragmented.