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sorry if this is a stupid question but why is there is so many people hating apple for this?
I mean they are not the first store to sell books above $9.99, sony and fictionwise has done it for a while. Not everybody wants to be a loss leader.
From reading the forums, articles and blogs it looked like the publishers were gonna do something like this sooner or later. It sounded like Apple was just used by the publisher in this negotiations.
Granted Steve Jobs may be a arrogant p*** but apple probably agreed to this model just to get the publishers onboard. Apple may had tried to get the 9.99 pricing but i don't think any big publisher wanted come aboard. This is business, it may not be smart business decision but i think a legal one.
Nobody forced Amazon to do what they did. They were given an option to keep the $9.99 pricing but they will not be given first dibs at the books. How is that different to what we are experiencing now, there are books amazon has which no other ebook retailer has and vice versa.
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