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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I don't see how this change will benefit the user one bit. It does nothing but add an extra layer to purchases.
It's a good thing I don't buy and read books on my iPod touch; otherwise, I'd be royally ticked off. Since I don't, this change doesn't affect me.
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It doesn't, directly. The only thing that I could see is that Apple is rolling out a new feature(Newsstand) as part of IOs 5:
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At an Apple conference held in San Francisco on June 6, Apple introduced iOS 5, the latest version of its mobile operating system, which now includes the Newsstand, a virtual set of shelves that display users’ subscriptions with the latest issues of magazine titles.
Also new to the App Store is an app that features only magazine and newspapers titles that offer a subscription model to customers.
In the Newsstand feature, each of the user’s chosen titles are updated automatically, “so you always have the latest issue and the most recent cover art,” according to a news statement from Apple.
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Maybe the magazine publishers would not have signed up for this unless Apple included ebooks in this policy change. TBH, I don't know. What I DO know is that you can still access the broadest range of written content on Ios-just slightly less conveniently than before.