Yes, I think we agree.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
If you remember, the music industry didn't like the fact that most digital music was sold via the iTunes store, so they allowed music to be sold DRM free from Amazon while forcing Apple to use DRM in the iTunes store. They also didn't like the tiered pricing scheme in the iTunes store. The ploy didn't work all that well, and after a year or so, Apple forced them to start selling music DRM free at the iTunes store as well.
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The music industry didn't like what Apple was doing and in a desperate attempt, they went to Amazon with a novel solution.
Unfortunately, the publishers didn't like what Amazon was doing and rather than look for a competitor or a novel solution, we got agency. Which means the publishers gain nothing by offering to sell DRM-free books via a competitor.
It would be nice if suddenly both Google Books and Apple Books sold DRM-free books in Kindle format that could easily be transferred by the common user. But I don't see that happening.
In the end, Amazon's Kindle ecosystem seems to be a publisher's best friend when it comes to ebooks.