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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
The consumer IS THE MARKETPLACE and in 10 years the marketplace will decide. In ten years the marketplace will have decided which format, DRM (or lack thereof) and price model survives. In a free market economy the power is the marketplace. It is not Macmillan, Apple, B&N, Amazon or Murdoch that decides.
All these various forces can try all the schemes they want, the choice is in our hands.
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that to my Beta-Max and HD-DVD players. Superior marketing is what decides the winner in general, not necessarily superior product. Murdoch and co. are well aware of this trend.
Picture the scene: Murdoch's media empire turns its guns on the anti-competitive features of the Kindle and why it's bad for consumers. Do you think the little eReader could survive?