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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Amazon and Apple are two peas in a pod; creating their own standards to suppress competition.
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There would be no mainstream e-book market if not for Amazon. Amazon created this market, and it did so before anyone else even used epub. How could they suppress competition by not using a standard that wasn't available?
Answer - they could not.
And of course it's not like epubs from Apple, B&N, and now even Kobo are cross-platform compatible: they all use incompatible drms, even if the underlying format is epub compatible (it's not clear that it is in the case of Kobo).
Apple supports and uses the common epub standard, although with their own DRM. But you can't use it to make the kind of books they'd like to see, so they came up with a new standard that will. It's hard to see that as suppressing competition when *there is no competition.* Seriously, who is being suppressed?