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captcrouton · 02-02-2010, 01:55 PM

So do you think Apple will help the publishers strong arm Amazon into upping e-book prices? He didn't say that Apple would be competitively priced to match Amazon. He said the books will be the same.

If Apple is a large enough force, they maybe intend to "re-set" the pricing standard to get a higher profit margin, like they've done with music.

kjk · 02-02-2010, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by captcrouton

So do you think Apple will help the publishers strong arm Amazon into upping e-book prices? He didn't say that Apple would be competitively priced to match Amazon. He said the books will be the same.

If Apple is a large enough force, they maybe intend to "re-set" the pricing standard to get a higher profit margin, like they've done with music.

I'm pretty sure now that Jobs wasn't talking about $9.99

I wasn't aware it was Apple that re-set the pricing standard for music though...from what I've read it was the music industry that wanted variable pricing, to get a higher profit margin on new releases.

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captcrouton Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 84 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine Device: Kindle 2	So do you think Apple will help the publishers strong arm Amazon into upping e-book prices? He didn't say that Apple would be competitively priced to match Amazon. He said the books will be the same. If Apple is a large enough force, they maybe intend to "re-set" the pricing standard to get a higher profit margin, like they've done with music.

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