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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm not saying Apple wants to kill ebooks, they want to sell them and make money. If anyone wants to kill ebooks it's the traditional publishers because they are running scared that it will destroy their print business. My take on it is that they feel if the set the price of the ebook the same or more than the print version they will sell the print version and continue their revenue stream. If they sell a few ebooks at the same price (with drm) then they've made even more money.
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Yes, it is sad, but I think that is a possibility. I am hoping that one of them will make a break for the "low price / high volume" model, but it sure doesn't look like that is going to happen any time soon.
I was just wondering why Apple would want to destroy ebooks. If you see the posts above, I was questioning the idea that these changes have been orchestrated by Apple, because I don't see what they have to gain from killing the only book market they can participate in.
EDIT: Ooops, misread what you said.