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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I will point out, for the thousandth time, that Amazon users are not the only ones effected by this. (or is it affected?) Nook, Sony, Kobo and every other e-reader out there will be effected. While Amazon holds a strong position in the US, there are still a large number of Nook users, something like 20% if the guesstimates I have seen are correct, and 10% t0 20% of Kobo, Sony, Apple, and other users who will be effected.
The only way that Amazon is the only one effected is if the BPH say they will only sell in EPUB and I am not sure that type of a move is in their best interest because that would isolate 60-70% of the market and that strikes me as a bad, bad idea.
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(Affected. A change is effected. You are affected by it.)
The difference is that any company can produce ebooks with DRM that are usable on Nooks, Kobos, Sonys, and iOS/Android devices with suitable apps.
Only Amazon can produce DRM'd books that work on Kindle devices.
That means that in order to reach customers with Kindles, the publishers have to either sell though Amazon or forgo DRM.