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I think Tubemonkey's earlier post was correct--there's enough blame to go around, for authors as well as for Amazon. Nobody *has* to publish through Amazon.
However, I think there's also an interesting point that hasn't yet been mentioned. If Amazon won't make e-books available to B&N, how long do you think it will be before someone converts an Amazon-only e-book to epub, and it shows up on the darknet? Not long, I think. We've seen that piracy is virtually impossible to stop, and that the only thing that seems to make a dent in it is easy availability of the product at a reasonable price in the format demanded by the consumer. If Amazon won't provide Nook-compatible books (i.e., epubs), someone else will.
So in this case, Amazon is repeating the mistakes of the publishers it seeks to replace. Apparently, they haven't learned as much as one would think.
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