This quote is the best part of Cory's article and I think if the publisher's did follow his advice here, Amazon would not have a leg to stand on.
Quote:
However, there's still time. The Macmillan imprint Tor Books – the largest science fiction publisher in the world, and the publisher of my US novels – gave up DRM on its entire catalogue two years ago. Each year since, the company has reported strong increases in ebook sales and no rises in piracy levels. If Macmillan – or its rivals – want to avoid the Hachette trap, now is the time. Push out the entire catalogue without DRM, now, and arm yourself with an "Amazon Refugee" app that can convert all your Kindle books to run on anyone else's platform, ready to release the very instant Amazon tries
this trick again.
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Instead of an "Amazon Refugee" app, they could just push Calibre to do the conversion(s).