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Originally Posted by shalym
What makes you think that? As far as I know they don't force any author or publisher to put DRM on their books...
Shari
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Or force anybody to buy a single ebook from them.
Anybody who wishes can buy a Kindle and feed it solely from PD or DRM-free purchases from other sites of which there is no shortage.
Their biggest crime is not worshipping at the altar of "universal epub".
A church of limited credibility in these days of kepubs, iBooks, and Nook Kids (to say nothing of KF8) that are all nominally epub-derived but not interoperable.
There will always be room for generics in ebooks but the direction the big ebookstores are all headed in is for house brands instead of the white-wrapped generic product. Mainstream consumers don't care enough about interoperability to make buying decisions based solely on it.