Snyder had cut deals with some of the business owners he was buying out that would make it easy for those owners to unload the Snyder Communication shares they received.
Amazon noted it has long had a public policy called "Buy Once, Enjoy Everywhere, " that aims to makebuying its digital content and physical goods easy on all hardware, not just its own Kindle devices.
It might be financially valuable too, but just because some people happen to own art that is worth more today than what they paid for it does not mean that buying art in order to make money is somehow easy to pull off.