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Old 08-25-2011, 05:29 PM   #70
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by curtw View Post
It may make you (and I) unhappy in the near-term to pay higher eBook prices, but you do realize that in the long run, what this accomplished was to prevent Amazon from establishing a monopoly through their ability to continue to sell books at a loss until the competition vanished, right?
I did like the way Fictionwise ran their business. Steve Jobs helped take that away.

I don't wish cancer on anyone. I don't wish ill health to Jobs.

But hiding your heads in the sand about what Jobs & Apple did to eBooks is not going to change what happened.
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