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Old 04-06-2016, 06:28 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Their market share dropped 45% from 2009 to early 2010. Then Agency and near-cost ereader pricing came in and the smaller Adept stores were squeezed out. (A matter currently in court. What is being litigated is the extent of the damage, not that the damage happened.)
Without viable alternatives to the walled gardens, interoperable epub faded into near irrelevance and without interoperable epub the generic readers faded.

Pretty straight line and fully documented causality chain.
These cases have been dismissed by Judge Denise Cote.
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