Antitrust and ebooks: regulators miss the big DRM lock-in picture

Hi,

Saw this article and thought it was particularly relevant to elearning:

"US antitrust regulators have never really been able to find the right place to stick their lever and pry when it comes to the Internet (witness their failure to understand Microsoft's platform dominance in the 90s). Now they're going after various publishers and Apple over price fixing (my publisher is included, and for the record, I don't agree with their stance on "agency pricing"), but they're missing all the big elephants in the room: platform lock-in by way of DRM, prohibitions created by both Apple and Amazon on using third-party payment systems on their apps, and all the associated ticking bombs that represent the real, enduring danger to the ebook marketplace... "

More: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/antitrust-and-ebooks-regulato.html

Enjoy! :)