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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Not necessarily, remember Amazon is a book seller first, paper and ebooks and a huge seller at that. Apple just sells hardware.
As ebook readers the last thing we may want to cheer for is Apple selling higher priced ebooks.  |
I dunno. I'd pay higher prices for greater access. Higher prices may be the...uh...price we have to pay to minimize the inconvenience, or even ultimately get rid, of DRMed ebooks.
If Apple allows price competition via apps, it will make it harder for various vendors to keep prices high. I have a Sony, and books in the Sony store seem to always be higher than at Amazon. And right now, short of owning both a Sony Reader and a Kindle, there's not much I can do about it, except read the Amazon version on my iPhone. Doable, but not optimal.
But with apps on the Pad, I'll have the option of using the Kindle app on the Pad to read the Amazon version. If Sony wants to sell me the book, they had better (1) meet the Amazon price, (2) have a Sony app up pretty quick and (3) let me have copies of the Sony version on both the Pad & the Reader. Otherwise, I buy at Amazon because it offers a better buying experience for the same price.
(Apple should have named it the iTab. Just think of the great advertising slogan: "Put it on your Tab.")