Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I expect that when the dust settles, small publishers who don't use DRM will watch their businesses grow, while the large publishers who use DRM will continue to panic as bookstores go bankrupt and they fail to meet customers' interests for digital content.
Amazon has no incentive to make its files readable on the Nook. B&N has no incentive to sell to Kindle users. Both would rather people with different devices had to re-buy their books for the other platform. Since the purpose of the DRM is to prevent casual sharing, not piracy (which is going to happen no matter what they do; scanning the paper is always going to be an option), their solutions aren't going to be oriented toward customer usability but vendor lock-in, which they don't get from universal formatting standards.
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