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Originally Posted by nekokami
Amazon has the marketing leverage to be able to lean on a lot of publishers to offer their content.
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They do indeed, and have successfully used it to get the publishers to budge in the past. However, this time the collective weight of B&N, Borders, et al., will be shoving just as hard in the opposite direction. I have no doubt that there are bookseller FUDsquads on the march already.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
You're right, it wouldn't be the whole Amazon inventory, but I think if Amazon wanted to be able to offer this service, and had a DRM plan that would convince the publishers that the content was going to be suitably protected, they could get a pretty large percentage of their content into the plan.
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You're probably right. The big question is what will the market look like? Any DRM plan, no matter how flexible, is likely to strip off the absolutist portion of the market.