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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
As long as the DRM is there, BN and Kobo are not likely to lose many customers. They would have to learn how to strip DRM and convert to buy from Amazon and for many people that is a step too far.
Now, if Amazon has better deals people might choose the Kindle over the Nook out of the gate and that would be bad for BN and Kobo and Sony.
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Now here is an interesting argument
in favor of DRM.
Thanks to DRM, non-Amazon retailers won't lose customers too precipitately once Amazon begins to out-discount them .
Yay, DRM , right. Actually, not so yay. The majority of ebook readers don't read only on a dedicated ereading device, so they can shift easily between bookstores. Besides, what's the cost of moving between bookstores? $79 -the cost of a dinner for two at a nice restuarant . That's not nothing, but it isn't an insurmountable wall locking the consumer into a device .