Thread: Ditching DRM on all e-books. Could Apple do it again?
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Old 07-22-2013, 02:45 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
If that were true, then Amazon would be selling EPUB, which is compatible to much more e-readers than MOBI/AZW nowadays.

Yes, Amazon makes money selling e-books, but they want you to read them on Kindle only, or in one of their apps, not on someone else's reader, and not in someone else's app. The reason probably is that the Kindle uploads information to Amazon, while other readers and apps would upload information to their manufacturer. (It's also the reason why my e-reader is permanently disconnected from Wifi.)
I always figured that the biggest reason that Amazon had to not sell EPUB is so that they don't have to pay the Adobe tax. If all books go DRM free, the Adobe tax would go away, and Amazon may start offering EPUB if the author requests it. I think what Amazon does is wholly dependent on their strategy. Do they want to be the top e-book seller, or the top e-reader seller? I think that if they offered authors the ability to sell EPUB versions of their book, they may get more authors to go exclusive with them.

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