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Originally Posted by nekokami
....The number of people who read books may be too small for Jobs to be interested in making a dedicated eBook reader, but I doubt he'd turn up his nose at a chance to make money on eBooks using existing hardware. I would not be at all surprised if the iTunes store ends up selling ebooks for the iPod Touch, etc. ...(
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Don't want to disagree with you neko, I hold your opinions in high regard, but everything is pointing the wrong way for the moment, especially with what concerns the iPod. The only way to display any form of text on any aPple portable device but a laptop is via Notes and authorizes only 4k at a time. (Email is an other thing) There are small software patches available to convert texts to notes and web sites catering to the same. aPple knows about this, worse I found those on their own site. Doesn't this denote a complete refusal of dealing with text?
Working with text is one of the oldest of tasks to do on a computer, why would aPple cease most any activity having to do with it?
Are there secret deals of 'non implication' with other entities? Have they forfaited text in exchange for other services? I can not understand this as anything other than a willfull act.
aPple will not do books.