Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 12-12-2011, 01:07 PM   #121
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
I think there are lots of problems with the new program from an author's perspective but aside from those, here's my question: How can Amazon provide "better distribution" when so many people -- worldwide -- do not have devices that are compatible with Amazon's DRM and Amazon is not making its DRM freely available to competitors? Anyone who already owns an Amazon device is already being distributed to by Amazon.
Because dedicated eInk devices are not the only reading devices, or I would imagine by now even the most common reading devices.
There are Amazon reading clients available for almost any device except other eInk readers.
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