Thread: "Is Government the Only Force Able to End Amazon Dominance?"
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Old 12-09-2013, 12:06 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
Can you substantiate this?
"Multi-platform" for ebooks has to mean ePub books with Adobe DRM support, and that would mean Amazon paying Adobe 22c per sale, just as every other ePub bookstore that uses Adobe DRM does. Hence a loss for Amazon, and also a loss for the customer, since the inevitable result would be higher prices, and the end of free books.

There's a very good reason why Amazon chose to own their own DRM platform, rather than paying fees to a third party, like Adobe.
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