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Originally Posted by kennyc
I think it was collusion between Apple and MacMillan that push this whole thing to the forefront. MacMillan clearly hates ebooks and is doing everything they can to kill them and preserve their print business. They hate the idea of library ebooks and the idea of discounted ebooks and particularly discounted ebook available at the hardback release date. They partnered with Apple to sell at the higher price and attempted to use that as leverage against Amazon. Amazon punched back. Only history will tell at this point who the survivors are.
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But why would Apple want to kill ebooks? They don't publish paper anything, and they never will. They have been all about selling electronic media and the gadgets people use to "consume" it.
There is something missing in this story.