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Originally Posted by OtinG
Indeed. The margins being too big has been one of the longest running complaints against Books and Kindle apps on smartphones, yet neither company has done much to address the complaints.
@pwalker8, Apple always treated, and still does treat, iBook/Books as an after thought. Apple went all out with the Music services, but have shown little interest in ebook services. Thankfully other companies offered better services and bookstores.
I will say that Books does work fairly well as a casual PDF reader and it is reasonably easy to open internet page PDFs in it via Share. So convenience is a plus even if feature sets are not.
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I suspect that has a lot to do with the anti-trust case. Once it was obvious the fix was in for Amazon, Jobs decided it wasn't worth too much effort. The Books update was a pretty nice update, but they are were more focused on the book store side rather than the reading side.