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Wow...horses for courses. Apple was the savior for the publishers, not the bully. Amazon was the antagonist (from the publishers POV).
I hadn’t looked at the book store in a long time due to the DRM not having been broken. So I went and looked - it’s nice. Very nice and very customer friendly. Looks like the same kind of improvements that went into the App Store. Lots of human curation. I’ve always preferred the iBooks/Books app to the Kindle app.
Alas, I have become a cross platform reader and so I don’t think I’ll change my buying habits. At least, though, I have a new place to look for book recommendations.
Apple is frequently criticized as ignoring this or that product or service. Clearly the books just got a revamp indicating Apple hasn’t completely lost interest. And the iPad remains, far and away, the best reading platform for those not married to eInk
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