Books, Publishers, Apple, Amazon and DRM from Karl Dubost on 2013-07-10 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:25:48 -0400
To: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org List" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Message-Id: <69EB85FF-8614-4B3B-84BA-F83BDE982665@la-grange.net>

FYI,

About DRM and Publishers and platforms

> The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM
> By Mathew Ingram
> Summary:
> The major publishers say they needed to cut an ebook deal with Apple in order to blunt the force of Amazon’s monopoly — but they themselves helped construct that monopoly by insisting on platform-specific DRM.

Read more at http://gigaom.com/2013/07/10/the-real-villain-in-the-ebooks-case-isnt-apple-or-amazon-its-publishers-addiction-to-drm/


-- 
Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

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