Mathew Ingram on the ebook piracy & Amazon threat
This kind of insistence on DRM and incompatible platforms, as well as the tangle of rights and often competing interests of publishers and authors when it comes to licensing copies or sharing, makes e-book buying a snake-pit of complexities — and only reinforces Amazon’s hold on the market, since it offers a simple end-to-end solution
When selling, you always want to minimize any “friction” and make sure buying is as easy as possible… just make you’re not doing this for someone else.