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Platform-Dependent and User-Unfriendly Future of Books.

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2012 12:04:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mathew Ingram on the e-book landscape:

As we?ve described before, Apple and Amazon come at the e-bookmarket from different perspectives: Apple sees books as justanother form of content that it can use to sell iPads and otherdevices, whereas Amazon sees devices like the Kindle and theKindle Fire as ways it can lock people into its content ecosystemand sell them more books, movies and so on. But both are dependenton having users locked into their products, and so they make it asdifficult as possible to move from one to the other.

This is pretty much why I was so down on DRM e-books all along, and why I like Nick Carr’s idea to bundle e-books as downloads that accompany good old-fashioned printed books.

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Read The Full Article:
http://gigaom.com/2012/02/29/how-the-e-book-landscape-is-becoming-a-walled-garden
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