Thread: Amazon and DRM changes
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Old 01-13-2023, 05:25 PM   #358
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
It's probably not about profit, but about locking people in. They don't want us to read their books on any other device but theirs.
I tend to doubt this is the reason. I would guess they want to sell ebooks. Looking at one site, Amazon has 5% global tablet market share. They don't sell phones anymore. What percent of ebooks are read on ereaders, I would guess it is relatively small.
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