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@notimp. Whilst you have not said certain things, certain things are implied from your post. Amazon has a vertical monopoly in relation to its own new proprietary format? So what, You have singled out Amazon, but all of the major ebook retailers have walled gardens. The issues that you have raised, somewhat incoherently, in this thread, have been discussed many times both on Mobileread and widely elsewhere, yet you claim they are new and raised by the kfx format. Amazon does not have a new ecosystem, just the same one it has always had. It has a new format, and it remains to be seen what it will do with it. In the here and now I can remove drm from any of my Amazon purchases. The .kfx format has not inconvenienced me in the least. I find it amazing that you claim you are not arguing about something that may happen in the future. Do you also take the view that all epub books with Adobe DRM cannot have it removed? Following your logic, you should, since Adobe has its new format in place ready to go.
It is you who referred to unspecified discussions in German academia, not I. Yet the term you used, industrialisation of distribution formats is, by itself, an imprecise one and hardly new.
Your argument seems to be essentially the "special snowflake" argument presented by Douglas Preston and Authors United which was so thoroughly and entertainingly debunked by Joe Konrath and others. Far from being a new un-debated issue (outside of German academis) raised by the kfx format it is probably one of the most discussed issues in the ebook world.
As I said, it was you who mentioned German Academia. I don't particularly care where you live and don't particularly want to know anything about you. The attack is not a personal one. It is an attack on your argument, such as it is. To understand this I suggest that a quick google of "Authors United" followed by a visit to Joe Konrath's blog would be very educational for you, though perhaps frustrating.
Finally, some questions for you? What do you believe Governments, in particular the US government, should be doing to solve the problems you perceive? And do you believe that the European approach including fixed ebook prices is the best one?
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