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Originally Posted by fugazied
One theory I'd believe is that Apple couldn't talk sense into the publishers and realised selling ebooks electronically is a drama and best left to niche products like the Kindle/Nook.
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More likely that with the continuing increase in the popularity of netbooks that they just don't see a gap in the market between smartphones and laptops that would allow them to sell a product with a large enough profit margin, especially in the uncertain economic situation we have currently and the current costs, performance and power considerations of the available screen technologies.