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Originally Posted by Bpine
Good point. Apple's decision is not a good thing, but to do this as an attempt to gain exclusivity to the e-book market makes absolutely no sense as a business strategy, especially if they are trying to maximize market share for hardware devices. Didn't they try something like this with iTunes and fail?
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True, but they have so many examples of other retailers doing the same thing - how could they not try? I don't think it will work in the long term, but I've been expecting this to occur as soon as they mentioned they would start selling books.