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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
It's the publishers who are insisting on DRM, not Amazon. Stonetools can try to make it seem otherwise, but the publishers are the ones that are holding back the tide. Now that lock-in is coming back to bite them in the rear, literally.
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You need to read what I wrote. I'm saying that according to Stross, the publishers did insist on DRM initially, and now its locking book buyers into Amazon . One BPH is now trying to go around that lock-in by offering a DRM free store selling one of its lines of books.
Now, frankly, I think that DRM lock-in plays little role in Amazon's dominance, since most of Amazon's customers don't know Amazon uses DRM (or even what DRM is) . But according to Stross and many of the digerati, going DRM free is the key to overturning the Amazon "monopoly".