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

The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM, article.
The publishers (all of whom settled with the government before the trial) have tried to argue in the past that they were forced to cut a deal with Apple because of Amazon’s monopoly — but when it gets right down to it, the real culprit is the DRM lock-in that the publishers themselves pushed for. In effect, they forged the chains that bound them to Amazon in the first place.
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