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Old 05-05-2010, 12:03 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Apple doesn't care about selling books. They only want to use the bookstore to get people to buy their hardware. A few 100 million they can make by selling books doesn't matter to them. So those of us who don't want to buy ipads don't matter, they don't want our business.
I doubt that that's entirely true. I don't think they would have troubled to stand the publishing industry on its head over the pricing model if they didn't want to sell books. (I don't think even Jobs has that big an ego.)

But they might have discovered that it's harder than they think to set up a really good bookstore.
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