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Originally Posted by fugazied
Very simply it will do a couple of things...
- Put an e-reader device into the hands of more people
- Give magazine publishers a nice color platform for their magazines
- Get casual magazine readers the perfect device. They will no longer have to buy magazines! That could be a game changer.
- Put pressure on ebook prices, with a new HUGE competitor in the market place.
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Probably the wrong forum for me to add this response. But I will anyway...No way magazines will be free. I think the next big move for publishing other than books is to start making revenue away from the web and not giving much of anything for free.
The music and movie guys started the whole DRM mess. Now the newspaper publishers (Murdoch already said it) that they don't want their news items to be free on all of the search engines much longer. Look for more costs added to get and read newspapers. They know this is their saving grace as printed consumption continues to free-fall.
Magazine guys will use this as well. No more freebies on the web. Maybe some tickler stuff in the near future but they want the profits without the costs of printing , distributing and selling.
Jobs already screwed the book reader with his new pricing scheme. Had such an immediate impact that Amazon had to belly up to McMillian's new price model. Amazon tried to take them off for awhile but that didn't work and had to eat crow and now will sell books at a significant increase to all of us.
Duck - because Apple's pricing model greatly favors the publisher. And unless Jobs and Co. figure something out differently in the future, the magazine and newspaper guys are salivating for the opportunity to sell there wares electronically at a hefty price and save all of the costs of printing, distribution, old issues and selling costs.