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Originally Posted by Harmon
I don't think it has much to do with pushing people to iBooks. I think Amazon has made it clear that if you want to sell ebooks, the way to do it is to maximize the buyer's ease of use. Of course, I'm wrong about it being clear, since none of the other ebook sellers seem to have grasped that point. (Like you, I tried out B&N and left. Now that I'm in the Kindle ecology, I have little incentive to try that store again.)
Everything Apple has done makes sense if you start with the idea that what they care about is the "rake-off" from other people selling things via Apps.
What they misjudged was the way the rake-off interacted with the profit margin on ebooks.
If Steve Jobs cared about ebooks, Apple would sell something that would replace the dedicated EBR the way the smart phone has replaced the cell phone. I don't know what it would be - that's Steve's job but he doesn't want to do it. I sure wish he did, though.
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His interference in ebooks has affected us people who don't want his products. So in the future I hope he stays away from books