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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Is it your position that the retailers are not using their proprietary DRM to lock-in customers to their "ecosystem" and devices?
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It is my position that you continually try to word things to make it seem as though big bad Amazon is forcing everyone to use their DRM. Which simply isn't true. The majority of big publishers refuse to sell through retailers who do not apply DRM.
Not all of them. O'Reilly and Tor are examples who sell their books without DRM. And they do so through Amazon.
Amazon doesn't need to be 'restrained' from applying DRM, and publishers are not 'allowing' its 'imposition'.
When the publisher wants to use DRM, Amazon applies DRM.
When the publisher does not want to use DRM, Amazon does not apply DRM.
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As to Amazon in particular; It has been suggested that Amazon is in a special position because they own their own DRM and need not pay Adobe or anyone else a per book fee. Do you think they will easily give up any advantage they gain from this situation? While other retailers might give up applying DRM and no longer have to pay such fees for the use of the DRM, Amazon would not have the same incentive.
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I think if publishers say 'stop applying DRM to our books' then Amazon will stop applying DRM to their books.
It is as simple as that. And it is exactly what has happened with Tor books.