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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In that particular case Amazon literally couldn't do a thing because Adobe shut down the servers after switching to a different DRM scheme. (Not too different from what Overdrive did to fictionwise.)
And yes, they learned a lesson: that they needed to control their entire customer relationship so Adobe couldn't screw their customers again.
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Good point.
Anyone who wants to complain about Amazon's "monopoly" and the fact they use a "non-standard" format, need to look into Adobe's DRM ePub monopoly. By going with their own format, Amazon has avoided Adobe DRM control.