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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Or maybe the Publishers will see the light and remove DRM from books so that any book store can sell books for the Kindle and the EPub readers. That would allow the other bookstores to more easily compete with Amazon.
Part of the e-book dominance of Amazon, and while they have lost position they are still the dominant player, is because of the dominance of the Kindle in the US. We are starting to see the spread of that dominance in the UK and might see something similar in Germany, France, and Spain as the Amazon bookstore grows.
BN needs to be able to sell books and have offers that would attract a Kindle user.
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Er, No. DRM is important only to the techie 1 per cent. To the 99 per cent f customers price discounts etc. will be far more important. No other retailer can match Amazon on those- except maybe Apple and Google , who don't really want to.