A monopoly is like a monarchy or even a dictatorship.
It can be benevolent and bring benefits to the people.
But it never stays that way forever. A few leadership changes and it is likely to be exploiting the people instead.
If there was no DRM there would be less reason for Amazon to sell books under cost - it wouldn't guarantee Kindle sales like it did in the beginning.
Now they are almost doing the opposite - selling the devices for cheap to get people to buy books. But it didn't start out that way.
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