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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
No, it's a threat to the middlemen that used to rip off the authors. It's disruptive to those middlemen...and only because via the Internet, we've entered an era where the publishing houses and the bookstores don't always hold the most direct path to the consumer.
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If Apple told you that the sky was orange, you would believe it. Do you seriously have so little ability to think independently of Apple that you can actually write "it's a threat to the middlemen that used to rip off the authors" while defending Apple's taking 30% off the top of an author's price...without your head exploding?
Or is Apple somehow not a middleman because Apple is cool and middlemen aren't cool?
If Apple actually does this, the only books you will be able to get on an iPad will be iBooks, customers for whom using the iPad as an ereader was important will migrate elsewhere (although I'm not sure how many people that is), people with e-readers who were interested in buying iPads will look elsewhere (not sure how many people that is, either, although it includes me). But the people hurt worse will be those who already bought the iPad with the intent of using the Kindle or Nook apps on it.