http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/13/h...ry/#more-34109
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DRM has not been the real damaging factor in the e-book industry; the open-source movement itself has been the real cause of hindered innovation and slow development.
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Yeah, that's the ticket. It's not the publishers, its those damn Open Source people!
And he points to the MUSIC INDUSTRY as the exemplar of how things went smoothly, because, according to him, everyone settled on MP3 quickly.
Except of course, the music industry, who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it. And Apple, who became the number one retailer in digital music, despite a) selling DRM'ed music for years b) never, even today, selling MP3s at all (they encode in AAC).