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> What infrastructure? A third party is managing the sales and downloads. Somebody is paying to run that. It's reasonable to assume that they'll stop paying t
by Rychard 7y ago
> What infrastructure? A third party is managing the sales and downloads.
Somebody is paying to run that.
It's reasonable to assume that they'll stop paying the second it stops making money for them.
- emodendroket 7y agoDo any of us anticipate that Amazon is going to leave the digital book business anytime soon? It's about as theoretical as saying you shouldn't use EC2 because Amazon might get out of the cloud services business.
- cameronbrown 7y agoIt shouldn't be all on Amazon/one-company. The whole industry needs to be responsible.
- emodendroket 7y agoThere's Apple, B&N, Kobo, and other also-rans but let's not kid ourselves.
- mailslot 7y agoA slightly different, yet more relevant example: digital music. Microsoft had their “plays for sure” DRM. No one thought Microsoft would get out of the music game. They did. “Plays for sure” no longer works. Does not play.
- naniwaduni 7y agoThe key word here is "DRM".
- emodendroket 7y agoDid Microsoft at some point absolutely dominate the music market? No.