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But some industry observers say that the real villain is not Amazon, but Adobe. As one senior figure put it: “Because they are the only system that anyone else can use they charge massive license feels to retailers and publishers. They are torture. They are the monopoly that exploits us in my view, not Amazon.”
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This makes every non-Amazon book more expensive than it needs to be.
Not having read the article, I do find Adobe to be torture. They are ^%&$%@$% EVERYWHERE. Sometimes, they seem to own about every standard in the world from DNG for pictures to PDF for printable documents, to EPUB for books, not to mention that there are no professional alternatives for programs such as Photoshop.
There is no use trying to develop one, because the market has invested itself too deeply into Adobe products. Have you ever seen Corel Graphics Suite (the only viable professional alternative, IMHO) used somewhere, for example? I haven't; not in The Netherlands.
Adobe is to standards what Google is to the internet: it's practically almost impossible not to get involved with them some way or another.