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Originally Posted by odamizu
Let me test my understanding:
1. The music industry gave up on DRM in hopes that allowing Amazon to offer DRM-free music would break Apple's monopoly on digital music sales and also because ripping DRM-free music from a CD was so easy as to make DRM pointless.
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I really don't think that's true. Apple always allowed the sale of DRM-free music; it was the record companies who insisted on DRM. iTunes always allowed the user both to rip CDs and to burn CDs from purchased content, even if the content had DRM.
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2. With books, Amazon was the one with a monopoly, and book publishers along with Apple tried to counter that with agency pricing, which blew up in their faces.
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That is self-evidently untrue. Amazon are not a monopoly. There are other bookstores.