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Murray,

I am not trying to be argumentative and I appreciate your patience, but I can't buy into the logic. I'm not sure why Apple would think that the subscription market is larger than the book market. More lucrative? If anybody is having bigger problems than book publishers then magazine and newspaper companies would most likely be on that list.

If Apple insists the only way to solve this problem is to make people go through their store, why charge them a 30% surcharge in order to route the purchase through the store - for their maintenance costs?

I don't doubt Apple would like to sell magazines as well as books as well as consumer goods if they could. But this was the best solution to their problem and this is being done keeping their customers interests in mind?

I'm sorry but I will have to remain a skeptic.