Charlie Stross: DRM-Abschaffung als letztes Mittel gegen Amazons Monopol auf dem E-Book-Markt

Lesenswerter Beitrag von Charlie Stross:

What Amazon’s ebook strategy means

Amazon seems to be trying to simultaneously establish a wholesale monopsony and a retail monopoly in the ebook sector
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Speaking out against DRM was, as more than one editor told me over the past decade, potentially a career-limiting move.
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By foolishly insisting on DRM, and then selling to Amazon on a wholesale basis, the publishers handed Amazon a monopoly on their customers—and thereby empowered a predatory monopsony.
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It doesn’t matter whether Macmillan wins the price-fixing lawsuit bought by the Department of Justice. The point is, the big six publishers’ Plan B for fighting the emerging Amazon monopsony has failed (…). This means that they need a Plan C. And the only viable Plan C, for breaking Amazon’s death-grip on the consumers, is to break DRM.

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