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Originally Posted by NatCh
But what Apple did was say, "okay, here's a really cool music player that'll play whatever music you have electronically -- oh, and by the way, we've got a service that sells music too, but that music can only play on our players."
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Actually, iTunes is more than the iTunes Music Store. It can convert your legacy music on CD into the format that plays on your iPod. You could do this with MP3 (even using iTunes), and you can import other MP3s into iTunes. iTunes also organizes your music into playlists and gets album data from online databases.
CONNECT cannot organize my other documents, because it doesn't do organization. It cannot process my existing library, either the paper books or the other electronic books I have, because Sony doesn't feel like it.
Frankly, in the book world we are better off than the music world. Though copyrights are far too long, there is a substantial volume of useful writing with expired copyright. We have an organized effort to collect it in Project Gutenberg. Music doesn't have lots of pre-1913 recordings to work with. My iPod has never played a piece of public domain music.
The reason we don't have a killer eBook is that Sony is our eInk product manufacturer, not Apple. No amount of Sony wishing will change that.