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stonetools · 02-28-2011, 04:27 PM

I think the Yahoo Finance article is pretty encouraging. If Steve Jobs himself says the new model was meant to apply solely to publishing companies, then neither Amazon or Netflix is affected The complete silence of all the booksellers-ALL of them - is pretty good evidence that they don't think they are affected.
One other piece of solid evidence. There is an app for the Ipad called Amazon Windowshop. It repackages the Amazon Marketplace as an app, offeringa very good inapp browsing and purchasing experience for everything except Kindle books. See a review here

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/10/w...-shop-amazon/#

Amazon brought this out last October, and it strains credulity to believe that Apple is going to push away Amazon or that Amazon is going to leave Apple given this commitment.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict with 90 per cent confidence that booksellers will not be affected by this.
Well, its been real fellas. What this shows the absolute, foaming at the mouth paronoia that any move by Apple engenders. Its been quite a show.

02-28-2011, 04:27 PM	#308
stonetools Wizard Posts: 2,016 Karma: 2838487 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Ipad, IPhone	I think the Yahoo Finance article is pretty encouraging. If Steve Jobs himself says the new model was meant to apply solely to publishing companies, then neither Amazon or Netflix is affected The complete silence of all the booksellers-ALL of them - is pretty good evidence that they don't think they are affected. One other piece of solid evidence. There is an app for the Ipad called Amazon Windowshop. It repackages the Amazon Marketplace as an app, offeringa very good inapp browsing and purchasing experience for everything except Kindle books. See a review here http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/10/w...-shop-amazon/# Amazon brought this out last October, and it strains credulity to believe that Apple is going to push away Amazon or that Amazon is going to leave Apple given this commitment. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict with 90 per cent confidence that booksellers will not be affected by this. Well, its been real fellas. What this shows the absolute, foaming at the mouth paronoia that any move by Apple engenders. Its been quite a show. Last edited by stonetools; 02-28-2011 at 04:53 PM.