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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That Adobe tax is paid on every ebook sold forever and ever and amounts to a significant slice of the *profit* in an ebook sale.
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What is Amazon's price for the publishers?
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everything Adobe does, they already do. And in some respects, they do it better. (Direct wireless shopping and delivery, device registration and management, standalone PC-less operation.)
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I can do and did the same with my T3.
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So Amazon paying for Adobe DRM is paying Adobe to do things they can do themselves in-house and cheaper. That is the very definition of free ride: getting paid to provide unnecessary services.
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Unnecessary for Amazon but not for eInk Kindle Users who might want to buy also from other stores or read ebooks from other sources than Amazon without conversion fuss (except for mobi).
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And the proof lies in the results: Amazon does just fine without Adobe.
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This is the proof for Amazon, yes. But I am not an Amazon shareholder.
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The only reason why Amazon would want to waste hundreds of millions of dollars a year paying Adobe would be to try to absolutely positively kill all competing ebookstores. That would be true monopolistic behavior and would draw the attention of the antitrust regulators faster than a speeding bullet. No way does Amazon want that. And neither do we.
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So they lock away their customers in order to give them shelter against their potential monopolistic behavior?
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As is, Amazon now runs a legally clean competitive operation. It is cheaper to run than their generic competitors and they choose to pass on the savings to consumers as lower prices.
Consumers get a clear choice: buy into the Amazon ecosystem or buy interoperability. Either choice has its pros and cons but that is life. *Everything* in life is a trade-off. TINSTAAFL!!
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No doubt about that. Except that the ADEPT cost is ridiculous on a per book basis and is hardly the source of significantly higher prices.
But I finally get the feeling that no ADEPT on Kindle isn't the real problem. If Amazon would license their DRM to independent bookstores in order to enable them to sell Kindle compatible books, Amazon would make an additional profit and Kindle users could buy where they want (ok, you will say that's what the users are doing already
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Or is this the case which would wake up the anti-trust regulators? Personally, I think it would be best to separate DRM providers and booksellers and create competition for Adobe on the DRM provider market.