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Originally Posted by rhadin
They should because it is in the publishers' best interests to combat Amazon's entry into their field.
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They won't do jack about it.
Amazon US sold around $6bn of books last year, plus another $8bn international. B&N was around $4.3bn, and another $0.85bn at BN.com -- an amount that is slowly dropping.
Regardless of format, Amazon is going to insist on Whispernet and is never going to accept Adobe DRM.
Amazon apps are available on every platform except Nook, Sony and a few bit players. I'm fairly confident you can root most of the Nooks and get an android version of the Amazon reader onto it.
There's absolutely no way publishers will resort to the Nuclear Option just to make Amazon adopt ePub+Adobe, and/or to help out B&N and Sony.
Nor is this a mortal threat to the publishers -- more like another whip in Bezos' hands. If they scored Stephen King
and JK Rowling in one week, that'd be a different story; but I'm guessing they are working more on undervalued low-priced mid-range authors, i.e. the ones who are left in the cold by current publisher practices.