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Originally Posted by EatingPie
A common format readable on all readers opens up the market. Right now, Amazon is not competing with B&N for books. B&N is not competing with Sony for books. Nobody competes. So price fixing is the result, and publishers dictate, sellers acquiesce, consumers pay.
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With the market as it currently stands, even without DRM and with a single format, there would likely still be price fixing. As much as competition usually brings prices down, the publishers have changed that for the eBook world somewhat by
dictating what Amazon/B&N/Kobo can charge instead of letting A/B/K set their own prices.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
They won't be PDF. PDF won't give readers the ability to change the text size and keep a good reading experience. People will complain. This is not what Rowling is after.
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From the tenor of the announcements so far, I think this would be preferable to the Pottermore team. If they cared about people complaining, they wouldn't have taken years to release eBooks and they wouldn't be releasing them as "side-load only" so that only people who sign up with the Pottermore store can read them.
