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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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A lot of digital artists are deep into Corel Painter for its natural media simulation but even in their market Adobe has its hooks. And yes, they are ubiquitous in the media businesses; everybody buys Adobe because everybody else buys Adobe.
I'm no fan of Adobe but I haven't heard of them sending kneecappers to the BPHs to force them to use DRM. If the Adobe hegemony is too big a handicap they are free to take note of the TOR experiment. There are no chains so tight as the ones we forge ourselves.
I read the article and the only vaguely hopeful sign in there is, in fact, the belated recognition that publishing has an Adobe problem. That's the first step, admitting they have a problem.
11 to go.