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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
I hate DRM, but this news means e-reader apps could emancipate themselves from Adobe Mobile.
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I don't think so.
Someone has to pay for this, and small companies will be financially-forced to join one or the other of the big players.
What I find it to be the most dangerous, is that the installed base of readers would become useless for the new books. Software can be updated (upgraded here would be a misnomer
), but portable players would be an instant kill.
Everyone would be forced, if they want to, to move to the new platforms, like iPads or Android tablets, which can do pretty much everything (the market for photo and video lost significant shares, since everyone was happy with the quality of the cellphone/tablet photos).
This would either force the normal citizen to change and pay more, or kill the ebooks niche. I doubt clever people would move along, since the new books, written under contract, became mass-products, as opposed to real books, written by people that had really something to say (Aristotle, Plato, and all authors before Bern 1860).