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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
This is a problem for Apple. If they allow readers for ADE-ePub or AZW/MOBI, then they're going to slash - dramatically - the market for iBooks. Very few readers are going to put up with Apple's own DRM...
Again, my bet is disallowing other people's apps. They've proven quite unresponsive to criticism about this sort of thing in the past...
kjk - That's precisely it. Heck, in the UK Play.com started selling DRM-free MP3's, and Apple rushed through it's UK agreement in response (indeed, it actually broke the UK store with a bad update it had to pull and put back up a day later, fixed).
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My own bet is that Apple the hardware company cares very little for the long term viability of iBooks.
http://gizmodo.com/5457420/apple-the-iphone-company