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Originally Posted by starrigger
It's an excellent article, even if it got a couple of minor points about royalties wrong.
It's ironic that Jobs, who a couple of years ago dismissed ebooks as irrelevant, should wield so much power in this area. Jobs, Bezos, a few others--it's a real-world clash of the titans, and the rest of us run around trying not to get hit by the falling rocks!
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Maybe he still does see books as irrelevant, as wants to help to hasten that. For music, tv etc. he would seem to be making things more available and affordable.
For books he wants to lock them down more and make them *more* expensive, reversing the trend of other media, and hence reducing the market and customer base.
So maybe he has a plan to shrink their importance compared to the audiovisual arena.
