Not exact matches
The requirement
of DRM does incur costs and requires infrastructural and technology
investments, so long term, that capital could hypothetically have been put to use for other competitive
investments — which would be
true for Amazon as well (on a much larger
scale.)
Worth noting though that while this is
true fr MOST authors, for those authors that need
scale or who need
investment to get
scale (the Fifty Shades kind
of scale or even approaching it) traditional publishers can still offer quite a bit.
Each
of four factors is
scaled in reverse with 1 being the worst or the most unfavorable to a
true passive income
investment.