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Originally Posted by DNSB
You did read the words that I have bolded in the quote from @Quoth's post? Once books were important to Amazon, now they make up a very small share of Amazon's revenue. If management was to decide to get out of the book business, the effect on Amazon as a whole would be minimal.
Amazon just might decide to jump off the Red Queen's racetrack when it comes to trying to stay ahead of the people busily breakinging their DRM. That there are now commercial implementations of DRM removal might make that decision even easier.
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Originally Posted by issybird
When we buy a Kindle book, the terms of sale say it's a license only. Where's the beef? If you didn't agree to the TOS, now's not the time to register an objection.
If DRM is evil, it seem to me that's debasing the word "evil". There's a lot of evil in the world, I regret to note. What word do we employ when it's something that's objectively evil?
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Imho, it could be not just because of the DRM; my hope is that having a business model that might be on the chart's first place, but in real world is having sold a lot of "bundles" that often didn't get read, plus another lot of books every now and then, generated by AI; well if that model is a failure that would be a good sign (also, it probably was on preventative to endure limited?).
I don't recall well but can it be that authors - on some specific sales - would have being paid only when, or if, the books have been read? I.e. several of those bundles that sells the novels for cheap might be monies that doesn't goes to the authors if the book remain on a TBR pile?