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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Except that they are in a position to require their particular "DRM", which is less about Digital Rights Management and more an attempt to restrict the use of the books, to be only on their dedicated ereaders and not anyone else's. They are quite happy to allow you to read these "protected" ebooks on PCs and tablets, and provide applications to do so, but not on any other dedicated ereading.
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You've got it backwards, at least for the ePub market.
It isn't that the ebook retailers who also make eInk devices don't want their books read on other eInk devices, it is that eInk device manufacturers who are also ebook retailers don't want their devices reading other retailers' books.
That it why B&N got Adobe to include their DRM as part of the standard software package (so they could sell books to more people), but no other major manufacturer has enabled it (so that their users carry on buying from them instead).
The tie-in is from device to content, not vice-versa, because you buy the device once, and then carry on buying content for it. It is the content that is profitable.