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Originally Posted by TimW
The fees are for one particular library's use of Adobe Content Server. Anyone using Adobe Content Server must pay these fees. Yes, Adobe makes lots of money on ADE. They have a virtual monopoly on library content. Any time someone uses the "free" Adobe Digital Editions to download a book, someone has to pay Adobe their vig. The only company that has attempted to break the library monopoly is Amazon...when Kindle library lending begins, Adobe won't be getting the automatic kickback on Kindle lended books. Whether or not you like/dislike Amazon, monopoly busting is a good thing.  |
Your statement about Adobe being a monopoly and Amazon fighting back is incorrect.
Before ePub, libraries had Mobipocket (for reflowable content). Amazon bought Mobipocket. So basically, other then PDF, Amazon had the format. Sony went to Mobipocket to ask to add Mobipocket as another format to the 505. Mobipocket said they had to be the only format to support DRM and Sony said no. Sony went with ePub via ADE.
So it was Amazon that helped give rise to ADE by being dumb enough to say no to allowing Sony to use Mobipocket.