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Originally Posted by dgatwood
But from a legal perspective, that Kindle book is exclusive, in the same way that Wal-Mart demanding that electronics vendors build a special SKU specifically for them makes that SKU exclusive to Wal-Mart, even though substantively similar models are available through other channels.
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It's not a form of "exclusivity" that is damaging to the consumer in any way, though, if the customer can buy a book containing precisely the same content in a dozen other bookstores. One could just as well say that books sold by Kobo or Apple are exclusive, too, because each of those stores sells books using its own DRM mechanisms.