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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
That said it doesn't mean there's no market for ebooks. It simply means the market isn't as broad as it might be for something like MP3 players. He's thinking in terms of numbers he can sell, & appears to be thinking Apple would be better off spending its development time on something else.
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Precisely.
If Jobs doesn't think people read, he should ride a New York City subway some time. Lots of books in evidence, along
with iPods. (You can read and listen at the same time...)
But meanwhile, he's looking for big numbers. He doesn't want to sell tens of thousands of a device -- he wants to sell millions. An iPod will get that sort of numbers. An ebook reader won't, at least at present.
Those unhappy at the prospect of no ebook reader from Apple should count their blessings. Given Apple's track record in product design, it would be very pretty, dead easy to use as long as you only wanted certain basic functionality, and defaulting to a proprietary ebook format only available through Apple.
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Dennis