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Originally Posted by Crowl
In the context of ebooks it is another drm system regardless of whether they had previously used it for music and if they weren't having such a childish strop with adobe then I am sure some kind of cross-licensing deal could have been worked out that would have made the ipad more appealing to people with a large purchased epub collection helping both apple and consumers.
As far as being a rational business decision, they seem to have decided to help amazon dominate the ebook market and given that amazon also sell other content, maybe it won't seem such a good idea further down the line.
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in the context of apple's available options it isn't a new DRM system. it's something they are comfortable with. proven protection and most importantly
they don't have to pay anyone else licensing fees. so why would apple have
any incentive to go license out someone else's DRM? just so they can be compatible with someone else's book store? or so they can sell files that are easily stripped of their DRM? erm. you do know apple is a business that makes business decisions in their best interests, right? may not be what is "best" for you. but apple doesn't have that high on their priority list.
apple pretty much had no choice but to allow amazon, b&n and others sell their book apps for the ipad. unless they wanted to put up with the huge backlash of not approving such apps, FTC investigation, etc. maybe it will hurt them in the future, maybe it won't. the ebook store is just a small drop in the bucket for apple. after all, they already got to sell you (the consumer) the ipad, and it's unlikely that is the only app you'll be buying for that ipad, they also get to sell you video, music, audiobooks, podcasts.