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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by Rychard on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:16AM (#21906614)
> What infrastructure? A third party is managing the sales and downloads.

Somebody is paying to run that.

It's reasonable to assume that they'll stop paying the second it stops making money for them.

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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by emodendroket on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:18AM (#21906618)
Do any of us anticipate that Amazon is going to leave the digital book business anytime soon? It's about as theoretical as saying you shouldn't use EC2 because Amazon might get out of the cloud services business.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by cameronbrown on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:44AM (#21906818)
It shouldn't be all on Amazon/one-company. The whole industry needs to be responsible.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by emodendroket on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:48AM (#21906860)
There's Apple, B&N, Kobo, and other also-rans but let's not kid ourselves.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by mailslot on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:55PM (#21907671)
A slightly different, yet more relevant example: digital music.

Microsoft had their “plays for sure” DRM. No one thought Microsoft would get out of the music game. They did. “Plays for sure” no longer works. Does not play.

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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by emodendroket on Sunday December 29, 2019 @04:43PM (#21908724)
Did Microsoft at some point absolutely dominate the music market? No.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by naniwaduni on Sunday December 29, 2019 @04:22PM (#21908588)
The key word here is "DRM".
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