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Apples book prices made the whole thing a non starter, their generally higher priced than elsewhere and you can't read the books anywhere except the Apple devices with their still unremovable DRM.
Even though I own a Sony I tend to think as Apple as the bad guy and Amazon as the good guy when it comes to ebooks this is in spite of the fact I don't own a Kindle and I do own an iPod Touch 64gb.
Also for the record I will never buy ebooks that cost more than paper, you can use all the arguments you like to justify the prices but as far as I can see the main reason the prices are as high is the publishers clinging on to their old business model and trying to hold back the technology if they stay on this path they will end up irrelevant.
I'm all for the author getting a fair price but I think in the long run they may have to bypass the publishers if they want to sell well.
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