It would be nice to see Amazon exercise their power on publishers.
Is Amazon / Kindle strong enough?
I think Jobs was in a different position because at the time he was making deals, the iPod (and iTunes) had already gained the necessary penetration rate causing record companies to tremble in fear. On the other hand, when you listen to
many publisher execs speak about the Kindle (or other e-book readers) today, it appears that they're not ready to acknowledge the demand for e-books yet.