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Originally Posted by tomsem
- without Apple, there would be no consumer-unfriendly Agency model for ebooks
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You mean "without Apple there'd be no competition against Amazon's monopoly"?
Even so, you are wrong. The publishers were going to deal with Amazon one way or another. Amazon would have either agreed to the Agency Model or the publishers would have ceased releasing new ebooks to Amazon during the hard back pricing window.
What Apple's iPad did was persuade Amazon to choose the Agency Model rather than the delayed release model as it was untenable that Apple could have desirable books to sell that Amazon didn't.
Lee