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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
For no identifiable reason? What about the fact that it is an easy way to e-books in the hands of students...and there are no other alternatives?
I mean, I'm a little skeptical that technology will help much with education - but getting righteously indignant over this program when no one else has done anything like it seems misplaced.
Would students be better off if Apple did nothing? I don't think so.
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Yes. Yes, they would.
This scheme means that, for authors that choose Apple's authoring software, there's no choice in format, very little choice in device, and no choice in where to get the books from. At least Amazon doesn't force users to use only Kindles. Apple's trying to get a lock-in on a sinister, almost handlebar-mustache scale of evil.
It's one thing to say, "Our software only publishes to our devices" (even though that's an amount of lock-in that I'm not entirely comfortable with). It's quite another to say, "If you use our software, any content you create is partially ours, and you can't sell it anywhere else." That's just ludicrous.