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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
And again, the 'ebook' as a media can not belong to any entity. Ebabel is plainly wrong.
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It's a model that's worked successfully in many other fields.
When you buy music from Apple's iTunes store, it will only play on an iPod - you can't use it on any type of music player.
When you buy a game for your Microsoft XBox 360, you can't play it on a Sony Playstation 3 (and vice versa, of course).
If you buy accessories for a Canon camera, you can't use them on a Nikon camera.
It's in the manufacturer's commercial interest to "lock" you into their product line, by encouraging you to spend a lot of money on things that you can't use with any other manufacturer's products.