Thread: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:40 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
That's exactly the point. It would force Amazon to be an ePub seller and would allow the consumer the choice of where to buy a book because all sellers would sell the book in ePub format with a universal DRM scheme.
The last part doesn't follow from the first.
Even among the ePub sellers there are three incompatible DRM formats. (four if you include kepub).
If Amazon used ePub they would do so with their own DRM, just like Apple and B&N.
There would be almost no visible difference to a Kindle user either way.
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