The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM
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.
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