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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I still don't see why they would actually want to.
Why would they expend 'political capital' renegotiating their agency agreements?
When you say should you seem to mean that you want them to, rather than that you think it is their interests to do so.
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They should because it is in the publishers' best interests to combat Amazon's entry into their field.
If Amazon had to adopt ePub and the same DRM scheme as every other ebookseller, then it would make less economic sense for Amazon to offer exclusives in some other format because the only books that would be in that other format would be those few exclusives. That would permit all publishers and ebooksellers to compete on a relatively level playing field.
Just view it like the movie industry. It made no sense for some studios to have one DRM scheme and others to have a different scheme. Ultimately consumers won because they could buy DVDs anywhere. It really isn't a difficult concept.