They applied for a patent to do exactly that.
What? Does it gall you, amazon, that the people who spent a year or more creating the e-book get to share a small percentage of your already ridiculously low prices? THAT'S TOO MUCH! Sell them used so the author gets zero cents.
I swear these guys are the devil. Has anyone ever checked them for horns?
Please explain the definition of a monopoly to me again. As publishers we have no choice but to deal with them. We can't do e-books ourselves. They own the technology. We are all sitting idly by while they crush everyone, and one day we'll wake up and say..."What happened?"
