By locking their titles to Amazon's platform with DRM, publishers surrendered their bargaining leverage with the tech giant. Every time a publisher sells a DRM-"protected" book to a customer, they add to the cost that customer will have to bear if they ever quit Amazon, because only Amazon-approved apps can read DRM-encumbered files sold by Amazon:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-their-own-throats.html
9/
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